A PRECOCIOUS YOUTH.
ADVANCE CHINA. Amongst the Chinese by the Teian who presented, themselves to the Secretary for Trade and Customs on, Friday for admission to the colony (remarks the Melbourne Argus) w«b a precocious youth not quite 15 years old, and about 4ft high', : Ho surprised Dr Wollaston, who is not easily moved, not only by the clear manner in which he expressed himself in English, but by the story he related; 1 First of all he announced that he wag a marrie.i man—married for two years—and then stated that he was a native of Victoria.and had been taken to China same years ago with several brothers and eisters hy his father and mother, He hud now become an orphan, I and returned lo the colony accompanied by a wife much older than himself with the object of looking after the business affairs of bis deceased father. A certify cafe of birth in the.colony was produced and generally he created such a favour* able impression that he passed the ordeal of the Customs department without any difficulty.
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 764, 4 October 1893, Page 1
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178A PRECOCIOUS YOUTH. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 764, 4 October 1893, Page 1
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