HOW THE ISLAND LABOUR TAFFIFO IS CARRIED ON.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1035, 13 January 1882, Page 2

HOW THE ISLAND LABOUR TRAFFIC IS CARRIED ON.

The Fiji Times publishes the following accounts of the fate cruise of the Jessie Kelly, which gives some insight into the peculiarities of tile island labor trade :— The Jessie Kelly left Levuka on the 9th July lasVlipensed to recruit labor for Fiji in the New Hebrides and Solomon groups. Experienced light winds until we reached Murderer's Bay, or Bat Napnee,'on the fee coast of Pentecost, on the 16th, Found it<hard to communicate' ffifo the jriaffieVbut jrhen they toims~ovfirwe we^^jjians we had less troubla Remained there, at anchor until the. 10th, tttioV got in the interval fourteen men and boys, a nice lot Found the Natives quiet enough, notwithstanding their bad reputation hereabouts, anct they constantly came off to the vessel in their miserable canoes. On the 22nd off the Jee coast of Oba. Anchored at : Wahhi&ki.: Found the Aurora and Idaho from Noumea, and the Mavis, from Fiji, also at anchor there before us. Under these circumstances the recruiting was not successful. Six bodts pulling about in pairs does not' I 'tend to get men. Natives did not even care to sell yams, and few came near us. From 26th to 28th on. lee of Pentecost; got one man. 1 At Bushman's Bay saw two men from, Stanley's plantation recent!^ landed /they ebmplain sadfcof.fc vessel taking men away forcibly, and giving no "yagona" to the men's' friends.