" The Heathen Chinee."
Ah Din was charged at the Melbourne Police Court recently, with working outside the hours prescribed by the Factories Act. The defendant was a cabinetmaker, who carried on bis business at 144 Little Lonsdale street, and when Constable Humphreys visited there at 6.55 p.m. on 27th March be caught Ab Din red-banded in the heinous act of working. "Do you know you are breaking tbe law ?" sternly demanded tbe constable. '' Plenty too much time," contended the Chinese, pointing to the clock, which indicated three minutes to 6. Humphreys then produced bis watch, SBd when Ah Din caught Bight of tbe correct post office time be tore bis clock from tbe wall, ani remarking passionately. "No good fashion ; him do me ham," pitched tbe timepiece violently against the wall. At the District Conrt, before Mr C. Nicholson, P.M , and Captain Russell, J.P., Ah Din pleaded that he had simply made a mistake in tba time, but as he was a second offender be was fined £5, and £2 costs.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 261, 10 May 1897, Page 2
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