Search Results for: Ah Cheong

1. Goldfields Settler or Frontier Rogue?

   Written by Provenance on August 31, 2012

   …he Chinese to pay’.26 Winch and Hodge’s initial enquiries were conducted at three stores where lotteries had been established. Winch commented that two were at ‘Campbell’s Creek, kept satisfactorily by Cheong Lung and Taing Tat, each of these pay Ah Coy 30/ per week and in proof of this the books of the concern were produced in which regular entries of these weekly payments are made’.27 He also mentioned that ‘…