AH LOY LIQURISES.

NZ Truth, Issue 407, 12 April 1913, Page 7

AH LOY LIQURISES.

Cabby's Chow Cargo. Tried to Bilk bnt is BooW. A Celestial's Day Out. (Prom' "Truth's" Auckland Rep.) 'Auckland the awful sees all sorts of 5: queer and unprecedented things, botkh. m its sober moments and m the ones which follow the night before. It -holds the record for beer, sadden death,' suicides, Wowsers, dirty streets, ancient sanitation, and other heavy-weight things, but Thursday of last week saw it strike something new," '•■- and original,- tin a Chow who performed that mystic ceremony known as "going on a bend*' or a "beano." - His distinguished and. Cantonscented monniker , was Ah Loy, and it broke out m two places on the modest charge sheet. First ! time it ■ was set down opposite a short narrative relating that Ah Loy had too michee ' beer, or gin, or samshu, as, tSJLflaw had to collect him m case hjjblocked the tram traffic and did (serious harm to the coming visit of JTHE CHAP-ANDER CIEtCUS. A tyit further on, . the ' loquacious charge sheet announced that, Ah had tried to work a point on a . simple and confiding' cabby by: endeavoring to "scale," or '.'beat" James Oakley of his just, modest and lawful fare, amounting to 325., \ r ■ "~ 1 Evidently Ah ■ is" a'i simple; } person, Unversed m the ways of.;. this sinful world, as, cabby is about ; ' the last person on earth he should have tried the game oh.; !r • •It wa£ a penitentoooking Ah who toed the judicial line on Thursday week. He was clad ,jn a glad fashidnablyrcut suit of light material, and he looked as if nine buckets full !of his native river ,' carefully poured from a height on to the spot where his pig-tail used to be, would have jbeen .of great' benefit to him:. Ah;. mournfully saveed^ the charges jof- assisting and likewise trying to beat local .industries, and ithem. . Also, he then relapsed into Bilence and gazetl into space with the jappearance of ohe^who ■ v .SEES VISIONS AlsfD THINGS. Inspector McGrath, ; with deep emoSaon, told' how X3hina :had- awakened and 'takerr unto the yheer p£. "the Foilin -Devil." ALso, how it had entered the . "Follin" cab and had icaused Jehu Oakley to °^"iY^ to every Chdw - garden round "the city ] wherein fche^ stately" - "callot" waved *jtsbranches to the breeze and the shel-ter-giying^cabbage lent a i peaceful, aspect to the scenery. Ah must Jiave visited . an awful lot; 1 of the . .* r Follm Devils" pubberies, as, when the day was far spent, arid Jehu Oakley was ehdeavo^irig . to connect Hrp .with the .requisite number yen, it ''■ was discovered ■ that Ah was far' short alscH— in" fact, he had nothing let t to "spend, ' . " • The bench beamed upon Ah' the ("sealer , ' ' - and ; reckoned-: that i; 'first of fell, he [would .'have^'to be "cbnvic^ed. However j the amicable relations existing Between Bill . Massey and Dr. Sun-Vat Sen would not.be disturbed if Jehu Oakley got his .quota of yen end costs connected- up with five jrpberto. • Ah then was allowed out to raise another Chinese loan i for,-, the .Purposes aforesaid, and went home to wallop his josa. into/ 4374££ frag--mentsi •■-■'■ ■■■'■' ■'■■ ' \ '"' ' ■ •'■■.