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MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
Thomas Coles was charged at the Magistrate's Court, io-ilay before Mr H. W. Robinson, S.M., with having assaulted a Chinamen named Tong Chong Qui. The case was heard at the Police Station fn consequence of tlie Court undergoing renovation, and the room was most oppressively ciowded with people. Tong Chong Qui, a Chinese market gardener of New Street, gave evidence stating that he was working in the Vanguard Street Chinese garden on Tluusday afternoon last with th-ee other Chinamen, Ah Kow, Ah Ling, and Ah Chim. Accused came into the garden and swore at witness, who told him to go away, but he refused to go Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 231, 30 September 1895, Page 2 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NEM18950930.2.11&cl=search&srpos=186&e=-------100--101----0chinese+market+garden--&st=1
Thomas Coles was charged at the Magistrate's Court, io-ilay before Mr H. W. Robinson, S.M., with having assaulted a Chinamen named Tong Chong Qui. The case was heard at the Police Station fn consequence of tlie Court undergoing renovation, and the room was most oppressively ciowded with people. Tong Chong Qui, a Chinese market gardener of New Street, gave evidence stating that he was working in the Vanguard Street Chinese garden on Tluusday afternoon last with th-ee other Chinamen, Ah Kow, Ah Ling, and Ah Chim. Accused came into the garden and swore at witness, who told him to go away, but he refused to go Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 231, 30 September 1895, Page 2 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NEM18950930.2.11&cl=search&srpos=186&e=-------100--101----0chinese+market+garden--&st=1