HOUSE ACCOMMODATION. 
B'l^, although this low rat© of pay was prevalcfit, 
it good rt muneration for the class of men in 
goaeral employment ; they were frequently of no, or 
very poor, education, people who as adven< urers came 
to the country or were bought out of the regimental 
ranks. 
By=and-by^ proprietors and agents imported young 
men of good education from the old country, but, the 
bulk of them being raw inexperienced lads, they w’ere,„ 
for a year or two, of little use, in fact did, un- 
consciously, a great deal of mischief. Many, on ac- 
count of being thrown on their own resources, before^ 
character was formed, and from the nature of the life, 
freed from all social and moral restraints, went all 
wrong in principle, sunk lower and lower in the social 
scale, until all self-respect, or respect from others, 
was gone. Then they disappeared, none knew, and 
few' cared, where. Others, but they •were comparatively 
few, braved and weathered the times, kept steady and 
true, preserved their own self-respect and retained the 
esteem of others, and, if they did make a slip occa- 
sionally, it was not to be wondered at : it would have 
teen a great wonder if they had; not. These few 
steadfast men became t'’ainers of the next or succeeding 
race, and so on the current rolled which made the 
coffee planters of our present time what tbey are, 
and what it is to he hoped they ever will remain:; 
a strictly honorable, upright, well-educated, and most 
conscientious body of men, with a vast amount of 
Responsibility devolving upon them* a responsibility 
•which in no other country in the world represents so 
few, BO very few, instances of breach of trust. 
Bad house accommodation, after a time, begins to telli 
on a man’s general character. This is ever a sound 
recognised opinion in the old country. When on© 
gets dirty and careless in personal accommodation and^ 
appearance, worse is not far off, but when such 
accommodation is the rule of “the service,” the results 
will also soon become the rule. It may be that the 
state of the ti[nes could not be helped, that in every 
young or new colony it is, or was the same. Take,, 
for inst^-nce, Australia, New Zealand, or Canada. 
Well, these are colonies fitted for the European con- 
stitution, and a!tog^ ther a different question from life 
in the tropics, but the principle is tne same, and I 
have myself seen that those who had the neat com- 
fortable dwelling-houses in Australia were altogether 
» more steady and industrious class of people than 
those who lived in bush huts, without even the 
®emblance of any comfort. 'Ihese were always very 
glad of any excuse to get away “to town,” where 
hey conducted themselye© very much in the way 
