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Post by NZBC on Jan 6, 2010 18:18:54 GMT 12
Wellington Friday. A number of Chinamen residing in Cuba-street made a savage assault last night on an expressman named Samuel Elliott. It appaars Elliott went to the shop of Wong She for onions, and being suspicious of not having received full weight, insisted on some more being' placed in the scales. Wong She refused, and Elliott repeated his demand, and as Wong She still refused, he commenced to help himself. This action started a row, and three other Chinamen in the shop, seizing broom handles, went to the assistance of Wong She, and belabored Elliott over the head and shoulders. Elliott escaped into the street, but not before receiving several severe scalp wounds, from which blood flowed freely. A large crowd collected round the shop, and the windows were broken by stones. Ultimately the pslice cleared the thoroughfare. The Chinamen are to be proceeded against. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8455, 31 August 1889, Page 2
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Post by NZBC on Jan 6, 2010 18:27:48 GMT 12
The clothing establishment of Mr J H Shane, tailor Cuba-street was burglariously entered on Saturday night and a quantity of goods stolen. The missing property has been found at the lodgings of two young men named George Raddon and Henry Watson, alias Charles Ruscoe, who were arrested on the charge of stealing the goods and remanded to Friday. Among the effects were found several articles which seem to implicate them with a burglary at Wong Chong's premises a fortnight ago. Both prisoners are new arrivals in Wellington. Raddon formerly worked on a farm near Timaru, while Watson was formerly employed aft a farm laborer at Burnham, near Christohurch. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7577, 27 October 1886, Page 2
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Post by NZBC on Apr 3, 2010 6:28:28 GMT 12
Chinese weddings in the Colony are rare enough to be worth noting. A Wellington fruiterer, Qui Lee by name, took to himself a wife the other day in the person of an almond-eyed beauty uewly imported. The event was the occasion of Chinese high jinks, and the bride is a curiosity to the Wellington people. Again, at Kumara, Sam Wan Lee, tea merchant, has just been married to Miss St. Helena Glosio, a young lady of seventeen summers. The knot was tied by Mr McEnnis, the Registrar, to the satisfaction of all concerned. The bride wore a bright blue skirt, pink bodice and scarlet sash, with white hat trimmed with poppies. The Kumara Times says the wedding appears to have culminated in the breaking of windows and general pandemonium. Observer, Volume XV, Issue 879, 26 October 1895, Page 11 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TO18951026.2.27&cl=search&srpos=7&e=-------10-PubMetaTO-1----0chinese+fruiterer-all&st=1
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Post by NZBC on Apr 3, 2010 6:37:31 GMT 12
Last year, a Chinese fruiterer in Wellington did a good stroke of business by importing an almond-eyed bride from his own land. It was a rare advertisement, for many people who didn't really want fruit went in to buy it in order to quiz the Mongolian lady. And as she has continued to serve in the shop up to quite a recent date, the interest in the affairs of the family rather increased than fell off. Now, there is the added curiosity of a genuine Chinese picaninny, probably the first full-blooded Chow girl corn in the district. Anyhow, the little yellow girl draws customers as powerfully as her mother did. John's easiness flourishes more than ever. Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 939, 26 December 1896, Page 11 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TO18961226.2.20&cl=search&srpos=10&e=-------10-PubMetaTO-1----0chinese+fruiterer-all&st=1
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Post by NZBC on Apr 5, 2010 8:10:02 GMT 12
CHINESE FRUIT SHOPS. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — 'Tis not once or twice within tho last week that I've had to swear against the Chinese fruit sellers. Seeing, as I thought, a nice sample of apples, marked up at a price, I bought Is worth, not thinking of a fraud, or that I could be cheated with my eyes wide open ; yet on taking them home fancy my annoyance to find' not one sound apple in the bag. How tho people of Wellington have continued to patronise the heathen Chinee is past, my comprehension, their habits being so unlike the Europeans, and now at tho fruit and vegetable salerooms no other person can get a supply, as the Chinese club together and outbid Europeans. I would not, and there are y thousands who would not (if European shops were toi bo got), take Id worth from them, and the only proper' way to combat this monopoly is for a small company to form and import their own fruit as is mostly done in Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin, where very few respectable people will patronise the Chinese. Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 97, 22 October 1900, Page 6 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19001022.2.60&cl=search&srpos=4&e=-------100--1----0chinese+fruit+auckland-all&st=1
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Post by NZBC on Apr 5, 2010 8:19:39 GMT 12
IN THE FRUIT TRADE EUROPEANS GAINING GROUND BATTLE AT THE CITY'S CENTRE. (By Memor.) By the sign of the golden and rubypyramid the Chinese fruit shops have Ions; been known in Wellington. It is not necessary to look for a name such as Hang Ching at the front. The neat geometrical arrangement of the oranges, apples, and bananas proclaims the Asiat'C proprietary. All the alien windows aie dressed plike. A style was set decades ago, and it has been followed year after year with the strictness of a religious rite. The prices are also the same on any given day_, and so is the small (a peculiar combination of greem tea, roast peanut, fruit and "the East"'). The Chinese have a brotherly code among themselves against under-cutting/ and in these times they do not seem to bother about lowering their prices to kill white competition. This apparent indifference to the European hustle for business, a successful fight against the old monopoly, is difficult to explain. Possibly the cause is fear of public opinion and a hardening of the law _: it is impossible for the Orientals not to know that, their grip of the market has been remarkably weakened during the past few years, especially in the parts southward of the Post Office. HOW THE TIDE HAS TURNED. As "fruit and confectionery shops" are unfortunately grouped in the returns of tho I labour Department, exact figures for the decline Of the Chinese empire in fruit and vegetables are not easy to give, but even this unsatisfa-ctory system of statistics shows how the Europeans have slowly recovered lost territory. The figures of the two classes of shops (single and "mixed") for several years are :—: — Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 119, 21 May 1913, Page 3 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19130521.2.17&cl=search&srpos=7&e=-------100--1----0chinese+fruit+auckland-all&st=1
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