The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . oes all in its power to meet theviews of this section of the community, by encouraging the studyof the language in the State-aided schools. The English andGerman sections of the population are in no respect differentto their confreres in their homelands. The Indians are taken, generally speaking, from the labouringclasses of their own country. There are of course, exceptions,but the bulk, while useful, and in fact almost indispensableas regular, steady labourers, have amongst them a proportion 16 who produce more crime t
The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . oes all in its power to meet theviews of this section of the community, by encouraging the studyof the language in the State-aided schools. The English andGerman sections of the population are in no respect differentto their confreres in their homelands. The Indians are taken, generally speaking, from the labouringclasses of their own country. There are of course, exceptions,but the bulk, while useful, and in fact almost indispensableas regular, steady labourers, have amongst them a proportion 16 who produce more crime than the whites collectively. Thesale of intoxicating liquors to them, and its prohibition fromthe natives may account for this. Indian labour was intro-duced to Natal, because the natives, who arc not yeteducated up to the necessity of daily toil, were so intermittentand unreliable as workers, as to seriously jeopardise theColonys agricultural prospects. In the earlier days, for lack of reliable labour, many anindustry was wrecked, and many a failure, as the Insolvency. Courts will attest, can be justly laid to this cause. In orderto obviate it, contracts were entered into with the IndianGovernment with a view to the introduction of coolie was written against this idea at first, but colonistsspeedily came to appreciate the advantage of a steady andreliable labour supply. Taken on the whole, the Indianshave proved their value, and but little is now urged againstthem. The Indian population is under the especial care ofan official called the Protector of Indian Immigrants. It would be superfluous in these pages to do more than 17 biicfl) outline the foregoing sections of the people. It may beinteresting to state, by way of conclusion, that in 1894, thetotal deposits in the savings banks amounted to i^i55,, for so small a population, speaks for itself Thenatives claim a more detailed notice, not only because oftheir numbers, but by reason of the absorbing intere
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