SOMETHING IN A NAME.

Dunstan Times, Issue 735, 19 May 1876, Page 2

SOMETHING IN A NAME.

—o— Shakespeare is not the infallible genius which some hero worshippers suppose him to be. For example, in a well-known play he leads his readers to believe that there’s nothing in a name, but we know of ono interesting “ modern instance” which proves his belief m tho matter to be Utterly false. Wang Sam M'Phersou, native of Hong Kong, and every inch a Chinaman, assumed jus present surname when, after his arrival in Otago, he foundpt would be to his advantago to have such a name. Wang Sam exE mined his reason for adding to his name as e had done, once in Dunedin. He had put in a tender for some railway contract, and when asked how he, a Chinaman, came to call i himself M’Pborson, his reply was—“Oh, no good you tender for work hero unless you Scotchman 1” This is the same gentleman who recently wrote to the Town Council of Invercargill offering to kill all the rabbits in tho Southland district in threo years, in consideration of receiving the fee simple of 5,000 acres of land on which to settle his countrymen of the clan M'Phersou of Hong Kong.