A MENAGE FROM ASIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5947, 10 July 1906, Page 2

A MENAGE FROM ASIA.

(To the Editor, "NX Times.")

f may at once state that I nm a film believer In racial purity in it" lullasi Gruip. lam a‘so int iy persuaded that {he HritL* and Scjindhmdnn races ary <lo&acudunu> vt Noah’* aou Bbcm. tboroi'oro Aria Cf. Japanese history

shows v<*rv clear]y ih c Japi-noai nre descended from Abiaham. U-;.ao and Jacob —-liip eame stock sus Dn> British. tDcicd hMtmy Informs us that Abraham, after ho luM his wife fearoi), mru rhd KeUiruh. W> r.ro hold in Gortvaic, IWlh ohnpier, that Abraham had Ms «otu by hi* wife iColurr.h. and at its interred that lie bad ether son-> by hi» concubines for ho gayo ti.om gift-; and sent them civslwaivl. It it any wouder that tho King of Great Britain ie Kmpcror of India? There is alto very a :vng evidence* that tho Japanese, whh whom the British arc in _ alliance, arc the descendants of tho tribes that settled on the cost side of the Jordan —Xiouben, Gad. and half of tho tribe of Manessah;.- so. British Israelite:*, beware how you treat your brethren. Id 18G7 I cams to New Zealand, determined to turn my hand to anything. The late Mr William Ebdon employed mo to ho ip Turn on tho hills near Ire tone to cultivate vegetables for the Wellington market. Alter that I came to Wellington and started to work at ray trade. At that time the six thousand inhabitants of Wellington were supplied with vegetables cultivated by Europeans and Maoris, (the Maori women were first-claes weeders.) A few years after that the inhabitants of the district were considerably thinned out. The Maoris left for Taranaki, the Europeans for the Wairerapa, Itangilikei and Manat-vatu. At that time there was a market house in Wellington bifi I never saw anything for ealp in it. Those who cultivated vegetables carted them round as a rule, and about that time tho late Mr "Wright started hawking meat wiith carts in Wellington. ‘There wore butcher shops, as now, and a few shops sold vegetables. The fust Cuinaman I remember in Wellington was a cabinetmaker; he married a European woman and I believe at the present time is in the Marlborough district. I forget the fird: time I noticed the Chinaman about with vegetables, but lam persuaded in my own mind it was a God-send to the people of Wellington that they came to its neighbourhood to cultivate vegetables, for the inhabitants had increased to a largo extent. The fruit trade at that time was to a large extent in tho hands of the Europeans—Nelson and the Hiatt district, X believe supplying most of the fruit. At that time little fruit was sold bv auction. How different now! It would bo well for the Press and people to notice that the Chinaman confines his attention to gardening and fruit selling. He does not invaae tno labouring or other walks of life. If the public had to depend entirely on European labour for vegetable cultivation what would be the price of vegetables? The fact is, the European, as a rule would not put in the necessary time anol patience. Ab regards the heathen Chinee's vices, there is not a vice they are guilty of but is rampant in all European cities. The opium vice is a just punishment on the nation. We forced the drug on China, and the Chinaman has used it to pay us back again. Their “living on the smell of an oil rag" is all rot. They occasionally pay Is 6d or 2s for a duck or fowl. Their expenditure on food exceeds that of those who consume meat, and especially was this so when we could get a leg of mutton for a shilling. Captain Cook and other navigators discovered Australia and New Zealand with the help of the mariner’s compass that the Chines© first brought into use. Surely, for that said compass, they should have, a claim on the consideration of the Government to allow them to work in the country. What ie the fact? John pays to be allowed to work and trade in tho colony, feeds his living and dead relations, and leaves the colony out of debt, with cash in hand to rest in the Flowery Land with Ms ancestors. The European has often to be forced to.support his aged parents. Comparisons are odious. Tho Chinaman stands out the best man, for all our boasted civilisation, and Christianity. In conclusion, I would remark, is it a fact that one million Europeans are commercially afraid of three thousand Chinamen. China and Japan will retaliate commercially. Who can blame them?—l am, etC ” BRITISHER. Wellington. July sth.