THE DOMINANT NATIVE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 179, 27 January 1912, Page 5

THE DOMINANT NATIVE.

Fifteen years ago a young Scot, wlio was getting about. £IOOO a year to manage a brewery in India, paid a'visit ' = to Sydney with the idea that he might settle in Australia, but he decided not to , do so. Now he has written to a Sydney resident:—"[ wish I had stayed in Sydney 20 year's even 15 yeara ago, when I had a chance. This is the happy ■hunting-ground of the high-salaried Indian official only. The cost of licing ha* been more than doubled within the last ten years, but wages, except to the natives, have not increased. The native rules the white man and thew hole situations, thanks to the Liberal (lovernment. The lower classes of natives and the servant class are getting out of hand, and ' V have no longer respect for Europeans, ' ? and the effect of the King coming out here and showing himself as an ordinary person is going to leave a still woTse resuit. In \lussouree, where I was living .>■ a few days ago, no fewer than three outrages on European ladies and children took place within a fortnight, and wot s even the miserable local press so much an .v dare remark or comment on the scandal, ! for fear of hurting the sensibilities of the high official in charge of the police of the district. Natives commit offences,daily in India which, in a European colony or •< America, they would be shot on sight for. There is no European public opinion other than official expressed in India by'the press. The non-official European community is in the minority, and i". nored." * " ;'i