SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
iivder this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other formal Great Britain, Slavery, and Indentured Labour. By the Yen. Archdeacon Potter. (R. Banks and Son. 6d. not.)—Here we have an address delivered last September and corrected up to December 19th. First we hear about the Congo. The unreformed area is still being exploited, we are told : "A cap gun worth 4s. is sold in the Web o district to a native for rubber worth .8180, and forced labour is exacted from 21 to 25 days in the month. The new order is to begin this year, and the people are being thus driven in the meantime. The old horrors of the Belgian Congo are going on in the French." We do not vouch for those state- ments; we quote them. So we do with what is said about the treatment of the natives in North Australia. One man relates that he gave a poisoned bullock to a tribe and let them die in dozens. "Half-caste children are sold to Chinese for a few pounds of provisions." "Girl children are sold from one man to another for a few pounds." "One man used to shoot the blacks for sport." If these things are false, the Agent for the colony ought to call Archdeacon Potter to account.
Previous page
