PROTECTION TO BRITISH GAMBLING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 278, 14 March 1877, Page 2

PROTECTION TO BRITISH GAMBLING.

_ « The Tuapelca Times says :—ln another column will be found an advertisement inserted by 13 Chinese residing at the Camp, intimating that they intend to sell off and clear out of this place. When John brought in his advertisement, we naturally asked him why was this thusly, and we give his answer in his own words. He said :—" Me obliged leave this place, as police too sharp. They look very sharply after my countrymen, because they play quietly by themselves, and have small lottery ; but they no interfere with hotelkeepers who keep their houses open all night, with lot of swells playing euchre and poker. All the same white fellows do what they like no get fined £25. My countrymen never get drunk, never go bankrupt, never swindle public, and never fight ; but police look after them sharp. Chinamen spend plenty money with storekeepers, always pay up ; white fellows get plenty tick. No good at all." The Celestial went on in the same strain for some length, and appeared to feel very keenly the manner in which he alleged his countrymen were persecuted by the authorities, while Englishmen are allowed to break the laws in many ways, and are never punished. There is to be a general clear out from the Camp, as the Chinkees say the police are making the place too hot for them.