CHINESE AND CAULIFLOWERS

Patea Mail, 14 July 1881, Page 4

CHINESE AND CAULIFLOWERS

The Hon, Captain Fraser speaking to the Chinese Bill in the Legislative Council said —The race was one of filthy vices and loathsome diseases, consequent on 5000 years of stagnant civilisation. They had been driven out of India 4000 years ago for their hideous and abominable vices and diseases. They were taking the bread from European mouths. They were so vile that the germs of disease, not to be killed by boiling water, were to be found in the vegetables they grew in their refuse. Boiling oil alone would kill those germs. Let Europeans be careful, therefore, of eating Chinese grown cabbage. Chinese wonld in time get too strong to be restrained if not restrained now. It was so in Honolulu, where, from a small beginning, they had to come to hold every plantation. Seventy thousand had lately gone to Kashgaria, and carried all before them with their own made guns, and 2,000,000 could as easily have gone. They would soon have entire possession of Australia, They were most treacherous, ns witness the Naseby murder. However, a Chinese had been hung for that, although it was the wrong man (laughter), the other one having the benefit of a clever lawyer. His countryman, though, to their credit, boycotted him, and cleared him out, and he (the speaker) hoped he had since cut his throat. The germs of their loathsome diseases were going through a circle, the Europeans must be careful or they would get them through their cauliflowers.