THE CHINESE IN CHINA.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 29, 8 February 1879, Page 3

THE CHINESE IN CHINA.

, I o much attention has been drawn to thf 'tlmond-eTed portion of the -community of late,; tbat'l think any foot as to the Mongolian when m -the Flowery. Land will be read with Jnteroit. P#(rhapt t herevli no nation under th© tun so thoroughly exclusi?* ~i§ John Chinaman. Although the Japanese ina^eni'bold'ttand againot the admission of Europeans^'or- the introduction of EuropeaV civilisation into their midst, no sooner had.;the,l)art*icir been broken-down, and the Rubicon pasted, than they discarded their former reiervo. and exclusiteness and the rulers not onlr encourages, intercourse with the strangers, but embassies and commit* sioneri bare been , despatched to all : the Eu^ope^n ■ eapitali, charged , with the mil•iota bt beooming^acquainted with the laws, customs, . iofentions r and manuf«ot«res, of .the oti^sid* nat ion.s. Th|t; spirit of acquisi|ion and imitation has been most noticeable at the last Parisian Expo^sjtion the contrast beenCjtht'Jap. and the Chinaman being 'most 'fn^iried. Before* the former had been twfot7 r -foar bburs at the"w«rld ? s capital, the molt fashionable tailor had received ari order for a most &shionable suit, the heary •soled "flipper was discarded for, the dress-boot, and thi Couti peraqaier v had' derdted his best •nergies on'th^ sharen pate of his customer. Not so hji'ChineM brother. To him the .habits, and customs, and costumes of his forefather* tiat a Shibboleth from whence thei^ was no stnyingrand while Johx Bvu> Jthrew ojf hit natire brusqueness to hob-nob ?i witli someitniiiling; shoulder-shrugging monnear, th# Pole 1 f raterni4ed with the tyrant Ban, and Paddy dra^kr the 1 "health of the Sassenach. Josk, imperturbable, unimpressionabjl* •( aqt l .with pettdint pig-tail, long■leered garment and^up-turnedtoes, pursued the e Ten tenor of his waynjast as he does m Melbomiqa, Ban Fjwjciecp, Wellington or else where. Australu has been termed the land of eootnu^ftiea,, and :$M mayhap so far as its nVpr^qc^e mi^'ba concerned, but 'if we-w«^'ito''s«»aa'pS|dple who 'are wholly diff«r«qt jfce{m,;th|ft'j^;« the human family of which tbayj^iv^ML inconsiderable part, they aw ilons^^.Bl found imongtt the subjecU.of his rno%Cel»tml Majesty, the First Qmsin to thti Moon. Sp,me time ago a letter WM writift, m an An^ericsn. paper hy a gentleman resident tn Ch,rna, and m at the time I considered it highly interesting I made » note pf the prinofpa) facts, and with your p*nw>ioQ wiU reproduce thw^ i» joor coliiiatts.