Phe notion of electricity, as greatly preferable. to lamps fed with cocoanut ai] or the fat lett over from the remains of the prisoners brought back by the native population from their last raid, has. probably suggested itself to the comfort-loving foreigner long before this. But it would be aceventuated by the necessity of having the new roads well lighted. And what more convenient than to confine the mountain streams into channels in which they may turn turbines, thus simultaneously getting cheap power and pre- i venting the roads from being flooded in rainy seasons, which means mess and the trouble of repairs.
Electric light having (now removed the last excuse for cannibal raids, which in any case axe dis-tubing to the general tranquillity, the younger sons proceed to drill the likeliest natives as a police force. As the latter will require special uniforms to differentiate them from the people whom they are to keep in order, a great impetus is given to trade with the the Home country, Manchester. cottons for shirts, Bradford wool for tunics and wrist-watches to tell the police when to go off duty. These comforts having to be paid for, there is-a.general speeding up of native' industries, and factories, docks and wharves: begin' to appear.
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