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Temuka Leader, Issue 2588, 30 November 1893, Page 4

In Western Australia Chinamen are imported by the batch, for terms of from three to seven years, and paid at tho joy ful rate of one shilling a day. On one well-known station the Chinamen aud blacks do the shearing. The aborigines " sign " for £2 per month—but whether they get it or not is another thing. The signatures look like pieces of a dog-legged f en Ce—end section. A parson holds service at the station occasionally, aud imparts the "trewth" to the Chows by signs—like a teacher in a deaf-and dumb Sunday school. The " boss " Chinaman (known by that title) is supposed to be able to talk English—but no white man can comprehend him. We often wished we understood Chinese, if only to hear the comments on the sermon. White shearers are not employed on that station, because " they interfere with the Chows and Macks," Also it isn't healthy for the white overseer to file too many complaints against the Gliinainen—he might get himself suspected as an advocate of white labour.— Exchange.