Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 113, 22 January 1891 — SAD. IF TRUE. [ARTICLE]

SAD. IF TRUE.

Letttr» have reached h«re frou» eiiina, to frien<]B ia Miis plaee, atating that Mr. Croo Kiin had l>3en <le<';ipitaU-<l tlie ordcr of ibe€hniese aut]ioriti('s. It secuus he \vas brovight to trialon ch<irges made by lah;)rers who ha/Icontr;K ted to serye as nekl ha:uls for l:is nee pliintations. but wēre shir>[»ed o-V I<> sugar piafitātk)ns ■ when ther reaehed -here, and wr.<> \vere also • mi)Lcted in the amount of tlieii passages whieh were to have b<,'en Uiiid bv the Master. This state of i:.Tegu!arity have becn know to ex.ist *in the labor transactions of tlif v euntry ai:d hiink.nl at. and by the peeuliar.system i>raetieed whieh lias . ln»en divulged to the Chinese autho-. rities, large surns of money iiave been unjust]y made in moie than om way ou t of the laborer. We hear that Mr. Afongwas also brought up iv»r trial, and only through pavi»g large elainip for datuages whieh a long \turs<! enabled him to meet, he t« wouhl havebeen minus a head. Aeeording to this aeeouni. our i>rognostieations as to the futility of expeetmg mueh relief from (-hina for lal>or wants is eoming true. It needed no prophet, however, to Bee t hat that wou.ld be the eape.