1846-47.] ME. FITSTPriE's FOUR YEAES IK TI^NEYELLT. 103 



request, he was prepared to clean and ship Cotton on 

 his own account to the extent of 30,000 rupees, pro- 

 vided that Government would let him have Minutes of 

 that amount upon the security of Govern- Consuita- 

 ment paper, without charging him any in- peb.'i84ff. 

 terest on the loan. This proposition fell Pari! Return 

 to the ground, as the Government declined ( 1857 )>p- S50 - 

 to advance money to Mr. Finnie for the purchase of 

 Cotton on his own account. ( 



Mr. Finnie's second year's operations with the 163 

 Churka, Thresher, and Gin. — At the commencement of 

 this second season, Mr. Finnie expressed himself still 

 anxious to gin a quantity of Cotton towards completing 

 the Company's order for six thousand bales. For this 

 object, a gin-house was necessary in which to work his 

 gins, and to obtain this was a work of time. Mean- 

 while he had a second object in view ; namely, to in- 

 duce the Natives to engage in the business. Accord- 

 ingly it will be advisable to review, first, his efforts to 

 persuade the Natives to use the gin ; and secondly, 

 his efforts to obtain a house for the working of the 

 gins. 



Sale of two Gins to neighbouring Zemindars : their 164 

 failure. — As regards the former measure, he appeared 

 in the first instance to have achieved a Mr. Einnie's 

 great success. He had actually prevailed Q^if^l 1 ' 

 on two Zemindars of villages to purchase Pari! Return 

 each a gin; he, on his part, agreeing to Sr?FmniSa 

 take all the Cotton they ginned at a fair letter, 25th 



rrYL 4. • 1. 4- Oct., 1846. 



price. The gins were set up in houses not p ar i. Return 

 exactly fitted for them; but still the ex- (1857), p. 369. 

 periment was tried, and Mr. Finnie had the pleasure of 

 subsequently reporting that the gins were a failure. 

 Their working, he said, was both imperfect and expen- 

 sive. The saw wheels did not project sufficiently 

 through the grates, and the staple was only partially 

 separated from the seed. Again, the gins moved so 

 heavily, that the people employed to work them re- 

 fused to turn the wheel after the second day. Mr. 

 Finnie thought that coercion might do them good, but 

 remembered that they were free men. .Next he thought 



