TROUBLE AMONG CHINESE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 111, 12 May 1910, Page 7

TROUBLE AMONG CHINESE.

IN SYDNEY. By Telegraph.— Press Assosiation.— Copyright. SYDNEY, 11th May." It was stated at the sitting of the Presbyterian Assembly to-day that the recent introduction of a Chinese teacher (Loo Yoh, a distinguished scholar in China) to Sydney had produced trouble among the Chinese. It appeared that the teacher compelled the children to bow down each morning to an image of Confucius. Parents objected, and one of the strongest objectors was the Rev. Young Wai, a Chinese Christian minister. As. a result, the Confucians had met together in what was called a court, and tried Young Wai, and had plotted in detail his assassination. It was further stated that steps had been taken to protect Young Wai. [Confucius ("Kung the Philosopher") was born in the Principality of Lv, the modern province of Shangtiuig, China, in 550 or 551 8.C., and died in 478 B.C. A celebrated philosopher, he was descended from an illustrious but impoverished family, and in his youth was successively keeper of stores and superintendent of parks' and herds to the chief of the district in which he lived. In his twenty-second year hs became a teacher, and in his ' fifty-second was made Chief Magistrate of the city of Chung-tu. lie was subsequently appointed Minister of Crime by the Marquis of Lv, but in his fifty-sixth year retired from office in consequence of tli9 intrigues of a neighbouring prince. After thirteen years of travel he returned in 483 to Lv, where he spent the rest of his life in completing his literary undertakings and teachings. Among the numerous works attributed to him the mopt notable are the "Chnn-Tsew" and the "Four books."]