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tons of sugar per acre. A South Australian Act has 

 lately been passed with the Indian Government to 

 facilitate and regulate the employment of Coolies from 

 India in the Northern Territory ; but no arrangements 

 have as yet been made for the introduction of Indian 

 labourers. 



Pretty fine sugars were exhibited by the Dutch 

 Settlements and were it not for the system of land 

 tenure practised in that Colony, Java would be a suc- 

 cessful rival of Mauritius. Situated between India 

 and Australia, with which they are in telegraphic 

 communication, Java and the neighbouring islands 

 have the great advantage of beiug close to our main 

 sugar markets to which they also export a great pro- 

 portion of this product. They are besides very fertile 

 islands and well supplied with labourers ; but no land 

 can be purchased from the natives to whom the whole 

 country belongs, and who lease it for a specified crops, 

 — sugar cane, cereals or tobacco — after which, the 

 land is restored to the native proprietors ; so that, the 

 Capitalists, most of them Europeans, feel very reluctant 

 to invest their money in a way which is more fruitful 

 in insecurity than large profits. 



The sugars contributed by the Colony of Penang, 

 were of a rather inferior quality. 



The same may be said of the Sugars contributed 

 by Tonquiu and Cochin China. 



Our most formidable rivals were the Presidencies 

 of India. 



