UNWELCOME GUESTS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2179, 18 February 1881, Page 3

UNWELCOME GUESTS.

At Auckland six Celestials proceeded on board the s.s. Arawata on her last trip for Sydney, and found their way to the steerage. The “Herald” says they carried no superfluous luggage, one’s baggage being stowed in an American bucket, the leading features of another’s being two long-handled shovels, and the remainder formed no remarkable contrast. A fellowcountrymen introduced thorn to one of the fore cabin stewards, and solicited his kind offices on the voyage, as even the Children of the Sun do not enjoy immunity from seasickness. That individual suggested, by way of a j 'ke, that they should go to the saloon. The practical-minded Chinamen thought this excellent advice, lifted up their luggage, and walked towards the cabin. Near to the door thereof they encountered Captain Sinclair, who inquired if they were going ashore again. “No,” laconically anowered the spokesman, and they continued their march to tho amazement of the worthy skipper. The look of horror and disgust that took possession of tho countenances of tho dandy waiters as tho Chinamen filed into the cabin was a sight not to bo easily forgotten by those who beheld it. They regarded the citizens of the flowery land with disdain. Tho Chinamen were afterwards seen paying tho difference in the passage money. The fashionably got-np stewards were also seen handling their luggage —very daintily, it is true—and removing it at arm’s length to tho state rooms of the Celestial voyagers.