A NOVEL CHINESE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7554, 18 April 1914, Page 3

A NOVEL CHINESE.

ONE WtfO WEABS A QUEUE. WORN AS A RESULT OF A BIG WAGER. A few years ago, a Chinaman, without a pigtail was a curiosity in the Dominion. Now they alt patronise the tonsorial artist. Even in the] United States hair-cntting is general, |n fact the onily Chinese who wears a queue lives in the Oriental quarter of little' old San Francisco. But how long he) will wear it is another matter. ! Ho was actually seen walking along Waverley place recentljy, but when a dozen or more irate and short-haired Chinese gave chaso and would have snipped it off, ho darted in'tc a stairway and disappeared. For a year or more there has heen a Chinatown legend about the only Chineso with a queue. Cliques and organizations have been formed to catch him. But they have always failed. The owner of the queue comes on the street rarely and only tor short period:! of tho davtinie, never at night. Ha moves his home frequently. -nisi is the legend of the "Only Chinese with a Queue": When the last pigtail but one was sacrificed to the shears a year or two ago this man. made a tremendously big wager with some rich friends that he would be able to retain his queue until the Panama-Pacific Exposition opened in 1915. Tho owner of the queue is a rich man himself. The wager was so big, according to the story, that he felt that mothing but sharp business practice would savo him from losing. So what did he do but organize a company to insure his queue against being cut off by his enemies.

So that is the way the matter stands .now. He is said to have in his employ several servants who have laid heavy wagers along with their, master. Every on« in Chinatown knows there is one citizen there, and one only, who wears a queue, and that he always is in danger. Up to the present time there aro no odds on the bettting.