The “Loafer” of the Press (Canterbury) learns that the Otago people are going to introduce 2000 Chinamen, and asks, “Why on earth don’t we introduce Chinamen ? They are a very interesting race of people. They are patient, \\ ill live where another man would starve—by the way, there are one or two localities in this province which would give them a good trial in this respect. 'I hey will work cheap; they wiil work harder than any two Europeans, and they are such rogues. Their dishonesty has something very interesting about it. I hove seen a great deal of Chinamen, and the more I saw of them the more I respected them, and the legs I J&ed them,”
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2649, 14 August 1871, Page 2
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117Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2649, 14 August 1871, Page 2
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