THE CHINESE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 132, 8 September 1871, Page 3

THE CHINESE.

The Denominational Education mania has seized on the Heathen Chinee! Witness the following letter, which appears in the ' Tuapeka Times' of last week, from an enthusiastic disciple of Confucius:—" Sir,—Plenty my ?ountrymens coming to New Zealand. You know hundred come in three weeks, and plenty more by-and-bye. Lots of young boys < ome too. Some not know read and write. Chinaman gives plenty money to Government for miners' rights, gold duty, and too much for rice and opium, and business license. Let Government give half share for teach our boys speak English and write, and learn good Confucius. Englishman school no good. We get night school teach our young boys all same as Englishman. Chinese boys then know too much Englishman law, and be good, no cheat, no steal, all the same as Englishman. You tell Government 2000 Chinaman here now, by-and-bye 4000 Chinaman. Want him one-fifteenth share. No gammon !—I am, &c, Foo Chow Cum." The San Francisco ' News Letter' thus drops upon a contemporary:— "The Oakland 'Transcript,' the most purely idiotic newspaper permitted by a public unconscious of its existence is endeavoring to incite the whites to rise up and slay the Chinese. In Tuesday's issue it printed an editorial article about thirty inches long, studded as thickly with exclamation points as a graveyard with tombstones, from which we extract the following:—'The cry of revenge will spring from the throats of our people. Kevenge ! for a thousand well remembered wrongs; revenge ! for the curse they have brought upon our State ; revenge ! for the infamous institutions they would build up in our midst; and remorseless deadly revenge! for the poverty and pestilence that hateful presence has spread through the land.' We counsel the good people of Oakland to soak the head of this editor in a bucket of buttermilk ; vacuum inside his skull is becoming unpleasantly warm.