A Coolie Invasion.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 6260, 5 July 1890, Page 3

A Coolie Invasion.

The immigration of Indian coolies has ai" ways been regarded with disfavour in Natal' whose people lock upon the Aeialics in much the same lights as Americans and Australians look upon Ohinaraen. But despite this circumstance, the unwelcome visitors continue to arrive, to tho discomfortura of many Nataliana, whose repugnance to them is expressed by a writer in the Natal Mareury, who says':— “ The ‘ Indian invasion ’ continues as strong as ever, and tho question which one day will have to be dealt with, is daily growing more d.ffijulfc by reason of the added strength to the Asiatic population. It was anything but a pleasant sight to colonists on a recent Saturday afternoon to see the hundreds of long robed Indian traders crowding at the end of the wharf, actually driving bargains on the spot as to the price they should pay for their luggage being landed. The question naturally arose as to what they were all going to do, how much of the trade created by Europeans they would filch away, and what benefit they would be to the colony. But this question during the next few weeks will receive more demonstration as to its continuity, as 1,000 more Asiatics will be added to tho Indian population of Natal in a very little time.”