John Chinaman's Ingenuity.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2922, 12 June 1888, Page 2

John Chinaman's Ingenuity.

The Melbourne correspondent of the Lyttelton Times is responsible for the following: The ways of the guileless Chinaman are beyond the ken of the ordinary white man without a doubt. One would think that in face of what has recently takeu place the Celestials would be almost reconciled to regarding Australia as a forbidden land, to bo reached only by the payment of a prohibitive poll tax, But I hear not, and from such authority that I can neither doubt it nor make it public, A new plan is to be sprung ujjoii the confiding authorities, so my informant tells me, but luckily from information cleverly gained the attempt will bo abortive. There is no poll tax on Chinese women, simply from the fact that none have come to this country, nor are thought likely to, Strange to say, however, many of the Chinese now resident here have sent home for their wives and daughters, suddenly struck with the consciousness of theii'do.nesticisolation. These will come in due course with little doubt, but more than half of them will be men in disguise. Onco landed, the women can be shipped home again or kept, just as it may be arranged. When one thinks of tho beardless emasculated face of the average Chinaman, the ingeniousness of the plan is apparent, but happily - if it should bo attempted—the authorities know enough to render it abortive.