THE CHOW INTRUDER.

NZ Truth, Issue 89, 2 March 1907, Page 4

THE CHOW INTRUDER.

WHITE TRADER TURNED OUT To Admit a Yellow Perilite, Old Couple Bulldozed by Aggressive Saffron Demons.

As an instance of the grip the yellow devils have got m Wellington and their aggressiveness m trade, the following story could not be beaten. Some fifteen months ago a European tradesman started m business m a small shop, No. 230, Willis-street, just past Gnuanee-street, as a draper and haberdashier, He paid £1 a week rent and had a verbal agreement that he would take the place for 12 mon<ftis, with the right to continue on that basis if he found the stand a paying one. He did, and built up quite a nice little business among the local residents, and paid his rent punctually to the husband of his landlady, a Mrs Mayo. ■• The, other day, Mayo, when he called for the rent, gave this estab-, listed white business man seven days notice to deliver up possession of the premises, which he acknowledged had been let to a Chinese fruiterer for £2 10s a week. The shopkeeper had seen ■ the yellow about his window and jabbering in 1 their, monkey lingo, 'for several weeks previous, but little knew, that his patriotic landlady was going to oust him and instal the yellow peril, for the sakei of an increased rent. When^he draper man went into possession, he, had installed a gas service and claims that he, had a verbal agreement with his landlord that if the tenancy was terminated he was to receive £1 on this account. Acting on this, and already cruelly aggrieved and; practically thrown on -the. streets, deprived of his business or any goodwill therefor, the tenant demanded the- rebate, bfit was met with a stolid . denial of any, such agreement. He .then " refused to pay the last week's rent, and w,as prompt-; 1"' served with a lawyer's letter, emanating, from the office of Messrs Bunny. Rawsorf and Petherick demanding the» sovereign and 6s Bd,--''our costs of this application," oh pain of a "summons without delay." Not being aware of the fact that this demand for "costs" was., pure bluff and that the six and eight cpuld not be recovered at law, the unfortunate tradesman, who is of foreign extraction, 1 though long domiciled, liaid the full amount, though it is tolerably certain, that had he gone to court— if Bunny and Co. and their precious client and dared to take him there— he would have won a verdict. Moreover, he states that when he ventured to. protest* he was. treated to a tirade of* unclean abuse by the nerson whom he interviewed. Bunny, Rawson and Petherick, should, m their own interests, enquire into this phase of the matter; as it cannot be to their interests to have callers treated with, to put i>t mildly, discourtesy. While on this subject of the overbidding of whites by stinking Chows, m the matter of renting premises, the fact may be recorded that , for some time past ugly Chinamen of aggressive appearance and attitude have continually called at the pri-, vate residence pf an old couple m the localrt£- vindicated ab&ve and'barkedy "You clear out'Of here. Dig place no god for Euloplean ; welly j goo for Chinaman laundly." This has gone on till' the old couple are afraid to answer the door and is a strong argument for police protection .against these aggressive yellow fiends. No wonder Lionel Terry reresorted to the gun !