PURSUED!

CHINESE CHASE A WHITE. LIVELY SENSATION AT OKURA. \ DOG, A STONE, SOME GLASS, AND TROUBLE. On Sunday afternoon (says the Masterton Age) the Akura road, near to the railway line crossing, was a. scene of considerable excitement. Miami 3lrs J. O'Keefe, of Masterton, were proceeding along Ngamatawa in company- with their young daughter Kathleen ,and Miss O'Keefe, the latter being in the company of Mr T. Home, a recent arrival in New Zealand and nephew of Mr O'Keefe. From statements given to the police by Mr Home, it appears that as the party were passing by the Chinese gardens in the road mentioned a dog came out of the gardens, near "by the hut in 'which the Chinese reside, and commenced to snarl and bark in. a threatening manner, and seemed about to attack Miss O'Keefe. Mr Home then picked up a stone and ■aimed at the animal, but missed the dog, and instead broke a, glass slat in a germinating house in tlie gardens. At once a crowd of Chinese rushed out of the premises, and made for the party, particularly for Mr Home, 'who was seen by one of the Chinese to throw the stone. The- "party on the road became alarmed at the fierce manner in "which the Chinese crowded round them, and made up the road. the Chinese followed in close pursuit, and it is alleged threw big stones at Mr Home, and attacked him with sticks. One of the stones is said to have struck Miss O'Keefe, who fell in a faint by the roadside. Mr Home, seeing that he was the chief subject of the hostility of the Chinese, leaving his friends on the road, when Akura road was reached, and running across a paddock to a party of young men to seek protection. The Chinese followed him, continuing to throw stones, one of which is said to havo struck one of the Chinese themselves. The pursuers caught Mr Home, and handled him in such a rough manner that a party of men, led by Mr Bond, at onco insisted on the release of the captive. A scene characteristic of ia Chinese fracas then ensued, the yellow, men asserting in voluble fashion that they were justified in their proceedings, and the young white man protesting strongly. Mr O'Keefe, who also gave assistance to his nephew, upheld the latter's statements, and the police were telephoned for. Constables Dunn, Townsend and Brown were smartly on the scene, and when an Age reporter arrived he found these constables severally busy in attending to the allegations and counter allegations of half a dozen Chinese and about a dozen whites, a crowd of other spectators heing (assembled round. On the ground lay a prostrate woman, her head supported), by Mr O'Keefe, while by the roadside, Razing fixedly on the ground as though waiting for his last hour to come, sat a disconsolate Celestial, with his queue dangling on the ground, and his face and neck a mass of blood which strearoied down from a scar near the? crow a of his head. The investigations of the police were to the effect stated, amd the constables decided, after they 'had inspected the sceno of the distu rbance, and the damage •caused to the (Chinese propertj', to allow the Chinese to proceed home. It is likely tha.b this morning there will he at least four of them charged Avith assault.Ah Lop went out to the ileene, post haste, and he told the reporter that the Cliinese allege that the other party threw stones, but the statements of numerous white •'witnesses are to effect that no provocation was given. Miss O'Keefe was conveyed f frame in a cab. the injured Cliinese being able to proceed home unassisted.