A writer in the Hokitika Keg Her says : "A boss Chinaman, who is also an interpreter for his benighted brethren, tells wi that there are 700 of his countrymen on the Coast, and that" the cry is still they come." I regret to say I don't like Chimamen. I share the prejudice of " glorious Edmund " in this respect. They are harmless, sober, and industrious, and pay their way; but I don't admire them. ' They accumulate money, which is in my eyes a grievous sin. I can't do it, and it is gall and wormwood to be outdone by a " heathen Chinee." If they were not so uniformly and disgustingly sue* cessfnl I could bear with them,"
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1523, 7 November 1873, Page 6
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116Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1523, 7 November 1873, Page 6
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