DEPARTURE OF THE CHINESE.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 522, 12 September 1871, Page 2

DEPARTURE OF THE CHINESE.

The Chinese passengers who arrived some days ago by the Joshua Bates, en route for the Southern Provinces, were landed this morning. It had been found that the repairs to that vessel would occupy longer than was at first anticipated ; and in consequenco arrangements were made for the transit of the men to the South by the Taranaki, leaving the Manukau this afternoon. The line of march lay up Hobson-slreet, and thence by the usual track to Onehunga. The inhabitants of the large towns of Australia were accustomed many years ago to witness the movement of long files of Celestials towards the diggings, but wo believe that this was the first occasion on which their peculiar mode of march has been observed in Auckland; and accordingly the corners of the streets * through which they passed wore thronged with gaping admirers. Eacli one of the travelling horde carried a pole swung across his shouldor, at either end of which was balanced the moiety of his worldly possessions. Iv many cases the weight appeared very great, but the bearer jogged steadily onwards, in a kind of " bog trot," aud the file was almost unbroken in its continuity for quite half a mile in length. The patient endurance of these men is well worthy of imitation by their AngloSaxon brother-labourers ; and a slight mixture of their habits of conservative plodding energy with the restless dissatisfaction of'the English, could not fail to have a good effect, however much the diggers may have hitherto objected to them on account of certain proclivities of theirs.