Post by NZBC on Feb 4, 2010 20:38:03 GMT 12
Yesterday. about ninety . Chinese were landed from the ss Rangitoto. These celestials have been brought here as it were to order, having been sent for by a small number their countrymen who landed here 4 some months since and- who appeari to be doing so well that theylhave induced more of their compatriots to enjoy the fat of the land. Although neighbors, they "are a most industrious race/andwill subceed in ferreting out a good dea of f gold Which has passed unobserved by the the European miner. After having refreshed themselves with a" welly good" pork, and fish they proceeded to thei diggings- one portion to the Hauhaus and another to the Waimea district Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 99, 23 November 1868, Page 281