THE CHINESE QUESTION

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2487, 19 June 1888, Page 2

THE CHINESE QUESTION

I. By Er.Koi'iiic Telegraph—CorvuiGHT.l London, June lu. The House of CotntnoiiH applauded Lord Carriugton's message giving the result of the Chinese Conference .at Sydney. Lord Ivntitsford states that the expressed terms of a treat)', as proposed by the Conference, can be negotiated with China, The London Press commend the decision arrived at by the Chinese Conference. June 16. The Times urges the Marquis of Salisbury to commence energetic parleying with China on the Chinese question, as it considers delay will only aggravate the difficulty. Sydney, June 18. Tho official papers regarding the Chinese Conference have been published, the record of the proceedings will lie communicated to the New Zealand Representative, Mr Oliver, and if he concurs in the resolutions arrived at, the fact Will be cabled to Lord Knutsford. Newcastle, June 18. At a large meeting of miners, it was determined to boycott the Chinese absolutely. Our Melbourne correspondent writes:— " The ways of the guileless Chinaman are beyond the ken of the ordinary white man without a doubt. One would think that in face of what has lately iaken place the celestials would be almost reconciled to regarding Australia as a forbidden lmd, to be reached only by payment of a prohibitive poll-tax. But I hear not-, and from such authority that I can neither doubt it nor make it public, A new plan is to be sprung upon the confiding authorities so my informant tells me, but luckily from information cleverly gained the attempt will be abortive. There is no poll tax on Chinese women, simply, from the fact that none have come to this country, nor are thought likely to. Strange to say however, many of the Chinese now resident here have sent home for their wives and daughters, struck with the concio.sncss of their domestic isolation. Thete will come in due course with little doubt, but more than half of them will be men in disguise, once landed, the women can bs shipped home agaiu or kept, just as it may be arranged. When one thinks of the beardless emasculated face of the average Chinaman, the ingeniousness of the plan is apparent, but happily -if it should be attempted—the authorities know enough to rentier it abortive "