THE UNSOPHISTICATED CHINEE
Per Press Asoc-ation. Wellington March 4. When three Chinese appeared at the J olice Court, to-day charged with having sold pa It-a-poo lottery tickets, the liist one asked to plead maintained a stolid silence. On the Court asking lor an interpreter, the police intimated that the man on whom they depended had disappeared. Half an hour later they produced a Chinese as interpreter. .. Where were you taught J'.nglish? °
The interpreter: 1 can't talk English (laughter). 'lhe HM.: lie won't do. It then appeared that the only man who could speak Chinese and English hii.i, been retained as iuteruretua to eounsel for the defence.
ihe S.AI. remarked tiiat there was evidently a conspiracy of silence, aud adjourned the cases until the Sin I inst to enable the police to secure nn mterptstor.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 5 March 1907, Page 2
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134THE UNSOPHISTICATED CHINEE Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 5 March 1907, Page 2
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