The Argus at KellyGang 13/6/1866
We suppose," says the Albury Banner, "we may shortly expect our cabbages and 'Chinaman's spinagee' to be a good deal cheaper and more abundant, for, instead of having it imported from Chiltern or Wahgunyah, we shall have it grown on the spot on this side of the border. A number of Chinamen have got possession, we do not know whether by purchase or hiring, of a site of land on the river bank near the old crossing-place, and behind the old puntman's house, and it is most amusing to go there and watch Johnny's operations. They are all as busy as bees, making up beds, forming little courses for irrigation, and planting and earthing up all sorts of esculents. They are erecting a double sort of building of bark in different compartments for themselves, looking like two large barns, Siamese-twin fashion, and they have cut a serpentine race from the garden to the river, or rather from the river to the garden; for, although the bank is some twenty feet above the present water level, they intend to bring the water into the garden by means of one of the oddest looking wells and lift-pump with endless wheel of water-boxes, emptying into troughs and thence into the race, that ever one saw. An hour may be spent on the spot just now with pleasure and instruction."
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