CHINESE TACTICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8756, 5 March 1907, Page 2

CHINESE TACTICS.

Per Press Association. Welling-von March 4.

When three Chinese appeared at the Police Court, charged with having sold pakapoo lottery tickets, the first one asked to plead maintained a stolid silence. On the Court asking for an interpreter the police intimated that the man on whom they depended had disappeared. Half an hour later they produced a Chinese as interpreter. The S.M.: “ Whore were you taught English ?” Tiie interpreter; “ I can’t talk English.” (Laughter). The S.M.: “He won’t do it.” It then appeared that the only man who could speak Chinese and English had been retained as interpreter to counsel for the defence. The S.M. remarked that there was evidently a conspiracy of silence, and adjourned the cases until the 22nd hist, to enable the police to secure au interpreter.