When Chinoso establish a secret society tbey tako care to make the code sf penalties simple, but painful, for anyone breaking tbe covenant. To witness ono such mode of ejectment is calculated to inspire the others withthesacrednessof the oatb. Some curious allegations came out in au assault case heard at Bendigo where p. Chinese secret society exists. Counsel for tho society explained that the member] woro sworn not to give evidence against each other in Court. One of the brotherhood havinc violated this prinoiple was sintoncad by the sooiety tt 108 oeitings. This punishment was administered with a big suck, after whioh ho wai dragged out of lho club-room by the pigtail with sush suddennc-m and violence that thei.ppanrlage was torn out >>y the roots i'his endel hU connexion witb the societr. A causa* tion wan c au^ed when counsel bta'.ed that Ii ho dieapuva'iuooor Constable Bum, lost at Whito ilnhcight years ago, was due tt U v ji,;iehi:,ationsof this sooiety.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIIII, Issue 121222, 17 August 1896, Page 2
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