JOHN IN TROUBLE.
The Chinese Restriction Bill of New South Wales has been assented to by the Governor. The main princples now left in it are that no ship is to bring to the Colony a greater number of Chinese passengers than in the proportion of one to every one hundred tons and that all Chinese arriving in the Colony, whether by land or by sea shall pay a poll tax of £10. At Albury the Custom authorities having received instructions to collect £10 from every Chinaman crossing the border, six were stopped as they were going from Melbourne to Sydney by the mail train, and as they refused to pay the poll tax they were confined in the police lockup. One of them who spoke very good English, produced papers to prove that he was a naturalised Victorian. On communicating with head-quarters, the sub-collector at Albury received orders to make the Chinaman pay the polltax or to deport them back to Victoria.
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Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1034, 11 January 1882, Page 2
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163JOHN IN TROUBLE. Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1034, 11 January 1882, Page 2
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