Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 161, 11 June 1901, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

The day of the Chow in Mew Zealand is becoming as a the taie that is told, and declining soon these isles will ouow, know him no mq.ro. That is, if the emigration returns, which show that during the mouth of April one Chinaman arrived in New Zealand and fifteen took their departure, have any significance. This may be due to the Chinese trouble, which keeps the almond-eyed one at home while the fun lasts, and it may be due to the fact that New Zealand is no longer such a happy hunting ground for the race. get an instance we need go no further than Waimate. In the days when the town was young and the inhabitants thereof were concerned with weightier matters than those of growing vegetables, a “ school ” of Chinamen pitched their movfng tent near Wainono, Here the succulent “cabbagee, lettucee and onionee” were grown, and for long the gardeners did a roaring trade. J3ye-and-bye they moved their centre of operations into town, and four or five of them made good money. They also sold the best crackers procurable, at a cheap rate, and the youth of the town found great enjoyment in the noisy celebrations at the Chinese New Year. (This is a scrap of autobiography). As time went on and more people grew their own vegetables, the., business of the Celestial waned and' one by one they departed for fresh fields and pastures new. At last only Chiug Fung Toon, an eminently respectable and industrious man, was left, but even alone ho found there was nothing to be made, and the sight of his vegetable laden cart with its tarpaulin cover is numbered with the things that have been and forms : part of the good old days ” about which the old inhabitants delight to acquaint the rising generation. Later legislation and the pressure of competition are tolling even on the patient,. industrious and frugal v Chi»yj.' , tQan> iand there seems small ci his greatly increasing in nur ’ I 'iL for many years to come. K