CHINAMAN ATTACKED

COURTENAY PLACE SENSATION. A sensation was caused in Courtenaj Place shortly after 11 o'clock yesterday morning, when a violent and apparently, unprovoked assault was committed on an elderly Chinaman named Wong Joe. The assault was committed by a man named James Little, .who inflicted such 6orious injuries on the unfortunate Chinaman that the latter is now an inmate of the Wellington Hospital. It appears that Wong Joe had just emerged from a countryman's fruit shop . a few' doors past Allen Street, where without warning, Little went -up to him and knocked him down on the sidewalk. He followed this up; by sitting on the Chinaman's chest, and clutehing him with both hands by the throat. Wong Joe made desperate struggles to free niniself from tho grip of his adversary, screaming loudly the while. Ho managed to work himself over on his face, but his assailant rose to his feet, and, 'it is stated, deliberately kicked the. Chinaman on the jaw. By this time the outcry of the Chinaman had attracted a fairly large crowd. Little walked across to the other side of Oourtonay Place, and made his way at a leisurely gait round into Tory Street. Some of the spectators followed him up, and eventually Constable Anderson, or the Manners Street Police Station, who had learnt of the assault, arrived on a bicycle, overtook and arrested Little. At the Police Station the man ar* peared quite unconcerned about hia brutal attack, stating that tho China' man had "done him out of his job." The injured Chinaman was taken to the Manners Street Police Station, and appeared to be suffering severely. Dr." Martin, who was called in, found him suffering from- a bruise on the left temple and a partial fracture of tho lower jaw.. His injuries were attended to, and he was conveyed to the Hospital. ■ Little will appear in Court to-day, but ■will probably bo remanded until his victim is in a fit condition to appear. - Little is a man of > medium build, and between 30 and 35 years of age. He informed the police-that he had arrived from Whanganiomona a week ago. The Hospital authorities reported last night that tho condition of the China' man was not serious.'