The Government of Australia is obviously resolvedtoprohibit the settlement of
coloured men in its island-continent, even risking a sharp contest with Queensland, where the system of importing Polynesians has, says Mr. Barton, the Premier of the Commonwealth, resulted in the establishment of slavery. The difficulties are great, as Australia must, to make this policy successful, keep out the Indian subjects of the King as well as Chinese, Japanese, and Polynesians; but her statesmen are right in keeping the blood of the new nation free from admixture. At all events, the point is one for Australians to decide, and we trust that neither the Coloeid Office nor the Foreign Office will quarrel with them on this account. We do not ask the Goaernment not to quarrel, fee of an authority which controls and reconciles all Departments, we are sorry to confess, we can see no trace.
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