GENERAL NEWS.
One of the things which one had better leave unsaid, says a Wellington paper, was uttered by a suave and innocentlooking Chinaman in the Magistrate's Court the other day, much to the amusement of those who heard' the remark. Just before the hearing of a case in which a Chinaman was the prosecutor, a compatriot of the plaintiff, who was to act as interpreter, took a seat at the barrister's table. A member of the profession enquired of the interpreter if there were any lawyers in China, ," My. word, you bet, too many plenty," lisped the guileless one, who then put the lawyer under crossexamination by asking if he (the lawyer) had ever been in China. "No," replied he of the lons robe, adding chaffingly, "But lam going next week." "Good job, too," ejaculated John, amid a suppressed titter from those who had heard the ingenuous rejoinder.
At the annual meeting of the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce, we learn from the report in the "Presß, "Mr Joseph Gould, referring to the depression, said that in the countries he visited, especially in America, the struggle for existence was awful. Throughout the length and breadth of the United States not only had the farmers to work early and late, but their industries were in a most depressed state. They also limited their output of production. Whilst in Chicago there was • meeting o( ironworkers, who resolved. not to go beyond 33 per cent, of production. The farming industry also cut West was most depressed, and he was glad to find the farmer here in a much better position than in the countries he had visited. What had struck him was that people here earned their money far more easily than in other countries. As he had said, he was glad to find, when he came back, that, compared with other countries, farmers here were in an excellent position, and were enabled to make money. (Cheers.) While he looked forward to better times he felt this, that even were matters to remain as they now were, their people would be better off than the people in many of the countries of the
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1181, 19 September 1885, Page 4
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