DESPATCH.
Vernor.
Missy
Date.
185
No.
163
22 Mon
Last previous Paper.
20776A
"N.S.Wales
82 N.Stales
Cong Kong
No Solve lea
NO.
RECD
(Subject)
C. O.
23
REGO 2 JAN 82.
Alleged Illtreatment of Certain Chinese at Sydney.
Closes letter from ton. To Kyrie Respecting.
282
aus? no. 26.17 Frbsz
To Gor MS. Wales No6 19 Jan 188 further.
Further to 17 thong no 182
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08_511
(Minutes.)
Mr. Meade -
A Parliamentary paper received from N.S. Wales gives the whole correspondence (telegraphic) which took place between the colonial secretaries at Sydney and Hong-Kong on the quarantine question.
N.S. Wales has recently been suffering from a small-pox epidemic, and the Govt. have passed an Act (now allowed) for the restriction of Chinese immigration. But the alleged fact that Chinese immigrants introduced small-pox into the colony was a secondary consideration: the real object was not to exclude disease, but the immigrants; and the stringent quarantine regulations, originally contained in the Bill, were proposed, not so much on sanitary grounds as with the object of making it difficult for captains and shipowners to bring Chinese passengers. Fortunately, however, the quarantine clause was struck out by...