THE YELLOW PERIL.

NZ Truth, Issue 132, 28 December 1907, Page 5

THE YELLOW PERIL.

CONFUSION IN COURTENAY PLAGE. The Baneful Influence of Beer. Shirley's Saturday Night's Saturnalia. The racial antipathy to the Chow comes jout when the indignant white is m bebr, or when, like ' Lionel Terry, he' suffers from a brain temporarily over-balanced by personal loathing of the miserable Chinkie. The spectacle of a large number of people patronising the wretched banana horror m a Courtenay-place fruit shop on : Saturday night, aroused a young man named William Shirley to a sense of the wrongfulness of things and, being incautious with beer, he entered the fruit emporium and , remonstrated with the alien's patrons, much to the indignation of the pia;tailed person, who said, "whaffdr ?" with great violence. At Wellington Magistrate's Court on Monday, the Bench had only Qhoo Lee's word for it that William loudly upbraided those present with buying with a skunk of a Chinaman, and that one 'woman was so impressed that she pitched a seven m the shop, and became, an hysterical subject for the casual doctor. ., Shirley 'pleaded guilty to a ; charge of behavinjr m a manner, calculated- to cause a breach of the peace, and Edward Wilson, a friend of. his,- protested his innocence. The yellow "person, who blew out a match, m recognition of his joss, swore that the man with the "tash," which was Shirley's moustache, INSULTED THE PEOPLE INSIDE, while. Wilson ; stood outside and prevailed ;upori probable customers not to enter the den. ■ Wilson was indignant when a f man: refused to heed his remonstrances,; and, went m and bought ''some ' banana.'' . Wilson tackled the banana buyer, and Shirley also ; ".emerging; .• the peaceful neighborhood was disturbed •by a street row. 'When copper CaVinody came on the '.scene, Shirley dodged like a Northern Union half-bactff but the trained law custodian nabbed his man. Wilson remarked to Carmodv, "Let .him go," and then prudently retired, but, s loyal to bis mate, followed him to the Manners-street station 1 ! to bail him out, and was there detained by burly bobby Stewart,''and .subsequently identified by Choo as one of the persons who halt been insulting women m, his fruit shop.; A guilty cireuiM stance* m the eyes of the police, was that Wilson, had a bottle of beer m his pocket, and couldn't say "sleet slit the sh*eet" without making a mess of it. .Wilson, on the other hand, averred that he had only had four quenchers during the evening, and the bottle was the ordinary : supper bottle that reputable citizens carry home with an idea of keeping it for. a droKthy Sunday mornine;, and* invariaHv' drink it the ni^-bt ..before. Wihon Bjaid.he was going home, peacrahlv with, his /mate, when ShMe*- pullsd into the Chow's shop, and caii*e?l unnecessary delay. Far from causing A BREACfef OF. THE PFACE, Wilson merely attempted to got his mate home, and was much concerned about him when he foil into the arms of the law. He insulted no woman. and bashed no one, and he could call two witnesses to say he wasn't drunk. RMdell, S.M. ; fined Shirley £2, and ordered him to pay interpreter's fee ,10s 6d, m default Christmas m quod. In Wilson's case, the evidence wasn't satisfactory, and his Worship gave him the benefit of the doubt by dismissing the information.