A VISITING INDIAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 813, 17 February 1910, Page 4

A VISITING INDIAN.

AND “THE TRICK DESPICABLE.” Christchurch, Ech. 15. An unsuspecting repotter had an interesting live minutes to-day with Hnssan, an Indian illusionist, who is about to j-in ilie Fuller vaudeville ciuuil Hassan has a grievance, and he unburdened his soul with Oriental pietim squeness. “Most honoutable and res} ectable sir,” he sai l. ‘'Von, the Mighty One, who piints the nns| eakable in the papet, I crave to you in your magnificence to listen to me in the moan ol one who with all humility and abasement towards you, have, with much straining of the heart, to complain on my stomach of the treatment of Your Most Glorious Government. God save the King. By the wisdom of my ignoble forelalbeis I have all the honour to be of the race of the Empire a Britisher, yet New Zva'and— the young Cub of the Mighty Lion — gives the insult. I, an Empire one, am only allowed to tread on your shotes on Mr Ben Fuller, the good man who will put up the bond of 2400 rupies; that is, that I mint leave again. It is the primest insult. It is the great degradation. By heaven, it ivvhat you call the ‘dead finish,’ for am I not of the British ?

Yon of the flowing pen in your magnificence will put down the illtimed protest of Hassan ; it is good. Your servant will be ever • Ttelul. I sing the ‘Rule Britannia’ and I pay the income tax. lam a Babu of the Babus. In England my brother eat in the Temple and learn the Law of the Great Prophets. In the Court my father receive his Nobility and Prince of Wales. Igo to England and I am a man. I come here and your land—is it of the policeman who ask me to write ? I write Arabic ; I write Hindustani; and he laugh. lam undone. It is the Trick Despicable.” Hassan smiled, hut it was plain to see that he considered the immigration restriction law a wicked and outrageous thing.