JOHN CHINAMAN.

Patea Mail, 9 June 1881, Page 4

JOHN CHINAMAN.

Referring to the 800 Chinamen lately brought by the Hero to the Wcst Coast of the South Island, to further arrivals at Auckland and Dunedin, and to the “ that 800 more of these locusts in fact human shape are now afloat,” en route for New Zealand, a writer in a southern journal says—The Government appear to be looking on with culpable apathy, and seem to entirely ignore the fact that we have hundreds of unemployed, belonging to our own race, in our midst, whose chances of procuring permanent employment are daily lessened by the rapid arrival of these yellow pig-tails. And what is olir small Colony in comparison to the Australian Continent ? Put a thousand Chinese into the Northern Territory, or into W osteni Australia, and they are speedily lost to sight; but it is very different with us—to have that number swarming upon our own hardworking miners. Hero is a paragraph

whHi n'i’i rr'g] in the "Lnko Wokabp o; r hj Aprils- lire Ci.hmse have now seen -d all the watap-r-gills and claims in Conroy’s Gully. Fora l<-i!g I ’n e past ‘ John ’ has boon sole possessor of Dnlabor s Gally, and is now in. i'.vaiy lor -.man's G'.i’y, Vv hall In- s -;’: as t.ds he v,'i; be in p assert-ion O. m-;. ■ v t‘T ■ <ro! i- •a-auh": t;g gri J 'OH the WCSt hark of ,1! ■ * }■.’ r'y ’ 1 quote this in sr.ppo- !■ o'’ my arip-;r..-;it, that tnese I 'hen on”.I s wi, . p"t\\r \el my hmgrr -oh v, 1 i;> s;tah numbers, aid ' v d iv,- a 1.-.v. ■- of our Furopf;,-! f m ; ’.<• yo-.iJie. :s, for it is a wi- ’ ■ .a . ■•bed fa-l t -.at K •.I’liMns wiii no work .••.’om.si > of (,ih;icse, i>re;■■■;• ring, as a hale, to look for fresh pi ,err. ra'hev m.n run ther sk (■*' ,•■.■ ■■' .ion'lmctiu- <,:se:is"S. A poll tax o' -,L' Ip por haa , to I."* ’ aid by '. •1 0 c;;pi •. nof eve y fade on r; rtVat, as we‘l as a hnit of one Chhtamxtt to cve”y 10 xrs ”ev‘ at ”, wo rid; so**n jm? a ve-y id- s.oti to ' ‘: anhoailhy s!ream of Asmiier.