(Per Press Association.) Auckland, this day. Arrived : K.M.S Mariposa with the 'Frisco mail. Passengers — Mrs Fowler; Bishop Lenihan ; Messrs J. L. Possmore, T. 0. Price, J. E. Whits, R. F. Fowler, M. A. Carroll, and six steerage. Major McKinley's re-election is a fore gone conclusion. The immigration of Japanese to the United States has of late increased so rapidly as to be looked upon with alarm on the Pacific coast. In response to prac tical requests by the War Department the Japanese Government issued an order restraining emigration to the United States that will prove- nearly prohibitive. The announcement was most welcome news, as considerable pressure had been brought to bear on the Treasury Depart ment in the matter. San Francisco haa been the victim of an at least over-zealous Board of Health in the matter of the bubouic plague. Every effort ha 9 been made to work up a scare, but the fact remains that not one person in a thousand of the inhabitants of the city believe there has been any case of plague in Chinatown or any other part of the city. The Board of Health has unearthed in the course of four months something like nine suspicious cases, and on the strength of th ; s subjected Chinatown to a long and costly siege of quarantine, entailing large financial loss not only to the Chinese but to the city and State in many ways which cannot be enumerated. None of the alleged victims of the plague were regarded as " suspicious " till death had ensued, and the presumption that Mr Young, assistant physician of health, could be familiar with the baccili of the plague when the greatest experts state their difficulties in the matter frankly, is generally regarded a3 ridi culous. The Chinese Consul and resi dents 'seek redress in the Courts, and it is believed the political machinations of the Health Board will soon come to naught and be exposed.
