MAORI V. CHINAMAN.—AMUSING ENCOUNTER.

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 270, 3 February 1874, Page 2

MAORI Y. CHINAMAN.— AMUSING ENCOUNTER.

A Maoki and a Chinaman (saie the Otago Dally Times Sinwwv L r )),pn"iw(i in an encounter of wit i the oilier day, on the P( r'.. ChatncM R 1 ;•• IVi\ The men wcm-p fair l-pea of thoir respectiVd races On theonu hand, tho Maori, with toltoocd Teat tnvand hniig'ily bearing ; on t'.ieoHier, tho M'ingo!, low -browed and rraflv of looL, with V>aron crown mid pendant pi^lail T'«o Wnori imi no other than W. P..tiki, well known at tho Port, ; while the Celestial was one of tho-ie who left yertrHny for t!<o \a\v\ oi tli^i- f \thf-j in the barque Hidda. T' c inrn'tin? wis brought about oisnall\. Poliki 'Irc^sfd iut i>i army, with beM topper on ieid, wus walkmsr up the pier with a medical friend, and tiipcMt 1^ tuo > - ilmpc C'nnvn n n w'io srem >H to ho iii.prpMcd hvh.s n; palu>niBin<>ly addre^p i ono of them thus — ' Ilti, John CluiDininn, to you ar.> pouip home, oil ? ' To which tho CKnivnnii u'uhed not ; but titter py««injr hi^ inlerrogalor intnitly lor a moment or two, inarched up to him, iind plapniß his fin-.-i-B on tl'P tatlojnjf on Potiki'n fHPP, vomork. .1 c. ii{«m. tuowsl^. ' Wtmt pood that, oh ?' Rapl-ed Ilio Miou, str. iht.-mng liinn.'ll up wlnlo his pvpb ilnshoil lndisiu.intl , "Ti-'.w.-iU uuoil j .kc." tlipn oamo the retort (jii ck .mil sm'iV'i, as «it ■ -i -wc-p of I is arm he U.,cUd tlu» C iin-imnn's hat oil. Hint *wz ng I,ih pintail, whirled the OeledtiK' round, a! the hi mo time ■hou'iiik glecfullv, ' But what good tl<i«, eh?' The Chinii.nan uy»l his autn onwt .iskaiice, picked up his hat > m 1 silontly inarched off, leaving Pjliki in p-JMocaion of t!io (.iild.

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