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Nov 28, 2010 18:58:14 GMT 12
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Applications from Wong Man Chong And Wong Yok for resumption of 200 acres of Mr James Logan's land at Waikaka for gold mining purposes.-After hearing evidence on.both sides, decision was reserved
Otago Daily Times , Issue 8645, 7 November 1889, Page 4
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Miners
Jan 7, 2011 19:07:09 GMT 12
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he Chinese never bring their wives; as soon as they make a little money, they return to the "flowery land." The Chinese are said to look upon the European with supreme contempt, no matter how poor he may be himself; and when he is leaving Otago a rich man, that contempt becomes sublime. 1874 - Adam, J. Twenty-five Years of Emigrant Life in the South of New Zealand > XVI. GOLD. www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/search.php
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Miners
Jan 7, 2011 19:16:53 GMT 12
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THE CHINESE—GOOD ARTIZANS. 171 prosecuted their work with, in many instances, marked success, and before many months had elapsed, a stream of Chinese emigration as well as immigration had set in. Once possessed of two or three hundred pounds, they can return, it is said, to the "flowery land," to pass the rest of their lives in peace and plenty; and as their paternal government … 1874 - Bathgate, A. Colonial Experiences or Sketches of People and Places in the Province of Otago, New Zealand. > Chapter 13. The Chinese, p 168-180 www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/search.php
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Miners
Jan 7, 2011 19:21:10 GMT 12
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The Chinese often take up old partially-worked 172 COLONIAL EXPERIENCE. auriferous ground and work it out so thoroughly that nothing is left by them; their frugal habits enabling them to live on what a European miner would starve on. Speaking against the Chinese, I heard a miner say, " Oh! this country's cooked by them. There was Doctor's flat—a man knew he could always knock …
whole, the heathen Chinese are a very hard-working, industrious, steady people, 176 COLONIAL EXPERIENCE. generally of a light-hearted, merry disposition, and, though wearing usually solemn counten- ances, are easily amused. I have seen a couple of them pay half-a-crown a head for admittance to an amateur concert, and sit with beaming faces during the performance, which they after- wards …
f the Chinese have their faults, they are mostly such as do not annoy their neighbours, and they are admittedly quiet and peaceable HONESTY OF THE CHINESE. 177 citizens. They gamble, it is true, but it is only amongst themselves; and if some do smoke opium, the effect is not to send them out to the streets as noisy brawlers. As to their dis- honesty and pilfering practices, my …
that when the Chinese first came to his district he for a time resolutely set his face against giving them any credit. A party of them, however, who were engaged in an undertaking from which they could not possibly obtain any result for some time, asked for credit, and he, partly as an experiment, and partly because he thought the claim would prove a rich one, granted their request,
They went away, and, as promised, left a man behind them; and at the time the store-keeper related his experience to SPURIOUS GOLD. 179 me, more than two-thirds of the debt had. been paid. The faith of this store-keeper in the Mon- golian race was subsequently destroyed, as he was made the victim of some gold manufac- turers.
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Miners
Jan 7, 2011 19:28:12 GMT 12
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They, the Chinese, are said to be most devoted husbands, are good-tempered, willing to expend money in dressing their wives, and they never get drunk. There is no accounting for tastes ! They seem here, as elsewhere, to take possession of the market- garden business. There are some handsome build- ings in Albury, such as the Anglican and the Roman 1880 - Crawford, J. C. Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia > A journey from New Zealand to Tasmania and Australia, p 264-308 www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/search.php?start=81&method=simple
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