DOMINION NEWS.
NOT SMALL-POX. Electric Telegraph—Prrss Association. Auckland, Last Night. The Health Department officials have inquired into the case of supposed small-pox at Whangarei and consider, it acute chicken-pox. CHINAMAN ASSAULTED. Wellington, Last Night. A violent assault, apparently quite unprovoked, was committed on an elderly Chinese, Wong Joe, in Courtenay Place this morning. Wong ha 1 just come out of a countrymen’s fruit shop when he was set upon by a man who knocked him down and kicked him violently on the jaw, inflicting severe injuries. The perpetrator walked unconcernedly away and was arrested in Tory street. At the, police station he said his name was .Jas. Little, and stated ho had only arrived a week ago from Wha~ rigamomona. He gave, no reason for the assault, except that the Chinese had ‘done him out of his job.” The injured man was removed to hospital, suffering partial fracture of the lower jaw and severe shock.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4944, 18 September 1914, Page 2
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