Notes and Comments.

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Notes and Comments.

John Chinaman, that solemn-faced

individual whom Waimate hard people, of the younger luck, generation at least, know chiefly from hearsay, has a notion that he may roam all orer this planet and retail the succulent cabbagee and lettucee until death them does part, but if he wants to have any aort of a share in the hereafter he must make hie asctnt from the Flowery Land. Thus it is the custom for living Chinese to send home the bodies of dead Chinese, in a state of greater or lesser antiquity, to that haven where their earthly thoughts wandered. Theae was some sort ot a rumpus a little while ago when a cargo was being gathered from all round New Zjaland. However, these smellful r» lies, to the number of 480, were put on the Ventnor and insured for £4650. Whether the vessel was not as strong as the cargo is at present unknown, but the fact remains that it went ashore at Cape Egmont on Sunday night and foundered off Hokianga. Two boats containing officers and part of the crew have landed. The rest of the crew were seen in two boats about seven miles oat. A steamer has been sent to their assistance. Poor Chinese, according to their tenets there is scant hope for these unfortunates in the next world.