AN EXPENSIVE OUTING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1754, 1 September 1917, Page 3

AN EXPENSIVE OUTING.

MRS. WONG CHONG’S EXPLOIT. Attired in a costume of a cornflower blue shade, a largo collar of .Maltese lace, a cosy-looking fur, and a picturesque bat, a Chinese woman known as Mrs Wong Chong appeared at the Magistrate’s Court yestserday (says- the Wanganui Chronicle), before [Mr Hewitt, S.M., on a charge of wilfully breaking two glass globes, the properly of Ngan Kee. The proceedings were watched by an interested group of Chinese. Sorgt, Taylor, who prosecuted, said tlie woman was liable to a tine of £lO. It was a peculiar case, and evidently the outcome of trade jealousy. Ngan Kee kept a fruit simp at the corner of Guyton street and the Avenue, while the defendant was the wife of a Chinaman Jiving furl her down (he Avenue. Early in the morning of August 17th she was seen to come out of her shop, look carefully around, and then go up with an iron bar and deliberately smash the globes. Two constables, who were at hand, arrested her. Ngan Kee and Co. had previously suffered annoyance by having a window broken and blinds taken a[Mr Brodie said evidence would he given to show that the defendant had nothing to do with the other occurrences. The defendant had spent a night in the police cells, and .after her arrest had been put to the indignity of having her house searched by warrant. [Mr Hewitt imposed a fine of £lO, Ngan Kee to he paid £3 15s out of that amount.