WEST INDIES.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 165, 25 September 1880, Page 3

WEST INDIES.

Tha Sales r»f IWn l.inds in Trinidad. if is satisfactory In note, are incrcasim;. I This shows vmv crcditalilv I'm- llm indus. i trv of tii.' smaller cultivators mid the spirit of enterprise ilis|il:iyi>(l liv (.hum. In the Trinidad papers th- cultivation of tnl.acco is sng-iwtp.l. Why does nn| this industry gel one hettcr in •Tnmnic.'i than it do«s ' ' 1 ><> the. same dilKenlties diftieultipsprcscnl themselves in Trinidad: Ili'vprtinar to the l.tml sales, (hero arc a source of revenue to the Oovornmcnt. anil the money ought to he employed as, similar receipts are in other colonies, in itifrodtlciiis labourers into the islmul who would settle there. The Chines.. are ffimil workers, and some ofthe nv v derive,] from ihe sale of Crown lands ini<jlit l)C devoted to n moderate immigration of agricultural Chinese, many nf (Item, perliaps with their families. And if any of these were of the Letter class, with money nf their own to pav port of their passage, why, so inueh the hotter. People it, the \V«st Indies scarcely seem to realise what would he the lienelits that, would accrue, from n moderate lint really good immigration of property selected Chinese. The colonies can do without tlio swecpine* of Chinese towns, luit a nnmlier of families, acenstotned to agricultural lalionr. from Ihe sugar districts of China would lie an acquisition to liny tropical colony.—European Itail. •