The Sydney papers mention the employment of a considerable number
of Hill Coolies in the colony of New South Wales. They are represented as a delicate race of men, not qualified for bard work. Many of them have absconded from the masters to whom they were bound ; and all of them require "to be looked after." Complaints of the scarcity of labour were incessant ; and the purchasers of land in the colony considered themselves to have been swindled by the Government, as they were led to sup- pose they should be supplied with convict-labour, which they cannot obtain. Indeed, it is said that if the convicts were fairly apportioned among the settlers, there would only be two to each person entitled to such aid. Prospects will not improve in New South Wales when the prohibition of the Hill Cooly trade is known there.
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