Ching Chong Quoted Hal Porter Bairnsdale 1920s Tune: Dan Tucker

Chinee Cook AUSTRALASIAN SKETCHER 1875 87/599

Anti Chinese ditty

Qld Examiner 1895
The advent of the cow
Will rid us of the Chow.

On Chinamen

Pat Pong, John, Johnny etc, Chink, Ding Bat, Canary JohnÖ

Mad as a Chinaman

Meaner than a goldfields Chow

Awkward as a Chinaman on a bicycle

Sister Lilly Supposed memorial notice

John Chinaman

Chop, Chop, Chop From Robyn Ridley 1970 whose mother sang this ditty as a child in then rural Glenhuntly, Victoria.

Chinaman's Track From Spangles in the sawdust by R P Whitwoth, 1880.

The AUSTRALIAN STAR. 1879

June 30 1877
Advice from the Palmer State (Qld) state that hundreds of Chinese are in the last stages of destitution and those hundreds more are pressing on to the goldfields. The Wardens ask for additional police protection, owing to the threatening attitude of the Chinese outside the camps.

FROM 'FORTY-FIVE YEARS EXPERIENCE IN NORTH QUEENSLAND' 1861-1905

W R O Hill.
Published Brisbane 1907.
This interesting book also had a chapter on the great fight between Heenan & Sayers ñ I have collected two songs on this fight. (Refer AFU ñ Joe Watson and Cyril Duncan)

The following song was composed and sung by the author at a charity concert in Cooktown about 1878. It is typical anti-Chinese.

The Palmer Local Tune: The Abyssinian Girl