from november 1860 through to june 1861 european miners attacked chinese gold miners in the area. this is now known as the lambing flat riots. as gold became harder to find, european miners got upset that the chinese miners were still finding gold. many chinese miners were attacked, robbed and killed. they were chased off the goldfields. eventually the riots were stopped and the chinese miners had their mining areas given back. the new south wales parliament passed the chinese immigration bill. this put a limit on the number of chinese that could come to new south wales on any ship. they also had to pay a tax to come new south wales.