The appeals made in Canada for! relief of the sufferers in China from, famine have, so far as I have been able to assertagn, amounted—to slightly over $500,000. There does not appear to be any chance of the Dominion Government making a grant towards the fund.
Further restrictions upon the immigration of Chinese into Canada are contained in a Bill introduced by the Minister of Immigration. Under the existing law a Chinese merchant is admitted without a head tax upon the production of " certificate of identity issued by! the Chinese Government, and vised by British Consular officers in China. There has been some abuse of this system, and it is now proposed to abolish the certificate of identity and to require every Chinese merchant to satisfy the Canadian controller of immigration as to the bouw fides of his mercantile career. The question. of the legal entrance into} Canada by Chinese immigrants will in future. if the amendments pass, be settled by & Board of Inquiry: instead of a magistrate: the same, provisions as to the classes admitted as apply to other immigrants will) apply to the Chinese, and the time
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