A Chinese Assault
[PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, August 30. A number of Chinamen residing in Cuba street made a savage assault last night on an expressman named Samuel Elliott. It appears Elliott went to the shop of Wong She for onions, and being suspicious of not receiving full weight insisted on some more being placed in the scales. Elliott repeated the demand, and as Wong She still refused he commenced to help himself. This action started a row, and three other Chinamen in the shop seizing broom handles went to the aseist^ ance of Wong She, and belaboured Elliott over the head and shoulders. Elliott c scaped into the street, but not be/ore he received several f evere scalp wounds, from which the blood flowed freely. A larj.« crowd collected round the shop and tl • windows were broken by stones. "Ult - mutely the police cleared the thoroughfare. The Chinamen will be proceeded against.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 33, 31 August 1889, Page 2
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154A Chinese Assault Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 33, 31 August 1889, Page 2
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