RAP CHIN HO, AND OTHERS TO JONG GOU.

Kumara Times, Issue 1713, 27 March 1882, Page 2

RAP CHIN HO, AND OTHERS TO JONG GOU.

[£eir faVor of fche KtJteARA Tutjss.] All hail! great mandarin ! wise id speech noble in deed ; whose Voice is like tHafc of the Hubbub ds she calls td her mate £ roni atQdm j the crimson bloss-mis of the Chip Choi Lee tree, whose branches extend to the four corners of the earth ! We hearken to your sayings, and are prepared td swear to the truth of any statement; you may make. We will blow out matches, break saucers, or eren cut off the heads of roosters j for know, ohj mandarin that we can always get tbeHl on the cheap from" the barbarians j and, having taken these oaths, we will then l» rocwd , ** justify all your actions; Kum Fa Too is going to prove that your dam (of glorious memory) would have stood any ordinary wear and tear; but that in an evil moment, a crawfish nearly a quarter of an ounce in weight; struck the dani a violent blow with bis off hind leg, and very naturally, the dam turned upside down in a moment; All this we intend to prove 1 * and more; We desire to know, oh mandarin ! whether his Excellency the Minister of Mines can read Chinese writing, for we are prepariug a petition, and a great painter has been engaged to emblarion signatures (including those of our: kindred in the land of rice and chotfchow) at a fixed pride per hundred: He cannot write the barbarian laifc guage, or else we would make it appeal that the owners of this land (for the' present) are all in your favor. As your Highness says, we must have this land to ourselves, and we will shortly play fan-tan for the claims and races of the barbariaLs. We will, if necessary, erect a wall as our almond-eyed forefathers did ten thousand years ago, to keep the Tartars outside of the country rul.d by the Brother of the Sun and the Moon, and First Cousin to the Fixed Stars. Great mandarin! hasten the* day when your humble brethren will have all the water to themselves ! and kill the Chinese Immigration Bill I We are told you can do this by a piece of' writing. May the sun shine on vou, and may your shadow extend over' the whole earth ! Continue to rule the barbarians with a rod of iron, aud bastinado all who signed the petition ! So shall yottr days be long in the land, and when we have, through your kind* nes<?, obtained gold enough to buy rice for the remainder of oxir lives in .the land of our nativity, we will teach infant Chinkeesj in that far off and rdeaf land, to bless the name of Jong Gou. Rap CtfiN Eto, On behalf of the celestial race now in Westland.-