More Chinese Leave

Apia.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Apia, May 27.

ANOTHER batch of over 70 Chinese coolies was repatriated on May 26 by the French steamer “Ville de Verdun.”

These coolies had been mostly out of work for a considerable time, and loaf ing about the streets, sometimes steal ing poultry and foodstuffs, or living on tbeir compatriots.

Many planters have dismissed part of their labour staffs, as the cocoa crop is picked and, as the lean season is ooming, expenses have to be cut down to bedrock.