WREAKING VENGENCE ON A CHINAMAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 28, 2 December 1901, Page 2

WREAKING VENGENCE ON A CHINAMAN.

AN ANGRY WOMAN RUBXB A OBOWD. 81 ORE BOMBARDEDPXB PBBBS ABSOOUMOH. Oheistohuboh, December 1. The south-east quarter of the toira was thrown into a state of last night wheo something like a bombardment took place at the premises of Yb3 Bow and Company, Chinese storekeepers. It appears that About 9 o'clock a woman living in the vicinity missod one of hep, little girls, aged 11, and traced her to the Chinaman's shop, where she, with two otber girls, waa purchaaiog crackers. The jumped to the conclusion that the Chinaman had been eaoouraging «HMren to his plac«, and she proceeded to give the inoffensive Mongolian a pieoe of her mind, and made grave charges against him. She then bill the child on the he»d with a piece of box lid, and aa the Chinaman protected she picked up ft heavy box and struck him on the )»—<*, The unfortunate man replied by striking the woman on the head with a bamboo walking stick. She shri«k«d, and this brought a crowd rouod, to whom the woman told a voluble tale at the Chinaman's perfidy, with the remit that several men rushed into theahop andWaulted the Mongolian Eventually the police came on the soene and the intruders were got out, the do* and matters quietened down. About 1" "0 liowever, the woman returned

i .i .i i- husband, and a crowd of 3000 intone githered. In spite of a large reinforcement of polioe, the building was pretty will wrecked, the panelaof the door being kicked in and not a wh'.le pane of glass being left in the pltce. Sa far so atrei's have bean made, but the polios are attitfi td there is no truth in the statement* of % wom?n aa to the Chinamen children to vi»it their house.