RED-HEADED CHINAMEN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3558, 4 December 1882, Page 4

RED-HEADED CHINAMEN.

An Alta reporter, while visiting the Coptic with the Quarintine Officer on her arrival in port, recently, discovered an out-and-out red-headed Chinamen. The unhand queue of this Celestial were of no doubtful shade, being as far as possible from violet. This ' sorreltop' received most distinguished consideration from his countrymen. Instead of calling him 'Brick-top,' 'Red-head,' 'Ginger,' &c, terms only too familiar to the ears of the red-haired Caucasian, the Chineso appeared to treat their red-headed countryman with special respect, reserving for him the choicest morsels of the meal, and treating him generally a 8 a superior. Yet he did not appear at all proud of his distinctive feature. On the contrary, he appeared to be engaged in a constant endeavor to hide it beneath a large but close-fitting cap as though he seemed to appreciate the oddity and inconsistency of one of his dusky complexion flaunting a blood-red queue in the face of creation. Besides this Chinaman there was on board another, a China boy, aged about fourteen, whose shiny black hair was compelled to divide the honors equally between numerous long and thick tufts of red hair. But this lad was not regarded with that esteem accorded to the other. The boy was looked upon somewhat in the light of a base imitation or counterfeit presentment. They were a strange pair, aud are doubtless now the observers in Chinatown.