The Chinese Question-Scene in George Street, December 7th-The Police Dispersing the Crowd.

Scarce colonial engraving of the unrest in Australia in regarding to Chinese immigration with the demonstration at Charlotte Place, Sydney.

It is deeply to be regretted that the question of Chinese immigration should have been forced upon public attention again, under cover of a dispute between the Australasian Steam Navigation Company and the Seaman’s Union. But a resolution proposed by Sir John Robertson, as an amendment on Sir Henry Parkes’s motion, was adopted. It was to this effect : That the local Government should represent to the Imperial authorities, the expediency of obtaining from the Chinese Government such a modification of the terms of existing treaties as would permit of restrictions being placed upon immigration from China. We do not remember seeing any report of the issue of this application to the Home Government. We presume the Secretary of State has taken some notice of the matter, but we are not aware of any practical results……………………

From the original edition of the Illustrated Sydney News.