IV.—INDUSTRIES AT MAURITIUS. 
The following correspondence has earn between the Colonial Office 
and Kew in regard to industries at Maurit 
As some of the industries treated hens are the subject of inquiry 
from other Colonies, the corr respondence will prove of interest, not only 
to Mauritius, but to other portions of Her Majesty’s possessions :— 
CotoniaL Orricz to ROYAL GARDENS, Kew. 
Sir, Downing Street, oe August 1885. 
Witi reference to your letter of the 2n ay, I am directed 
by Secretary Colonel Stanley to transmit to you, for such observations 
ereon as Sir Joseph Hooker may have to offer, the accompanying 
Soy of a despatch from the Governor of Mauritius, ee the pre- 
liminary report of a Committee which had been appointed to o inquire 
into and report apon gis best means of encouraging the cultivation of 
other products bes 
Colonel Stanley ag ‘feel obliged for any ee compar which Sir 
Joseph Hooker’s experience may enable him to make as to the industries 
e 
special steps to be taken to ensure, as far as possible, such s 
_ Iam, &e. 
W. T. Thiselton Dyer, Esq., C.M.G., (Signed) "Jonny BRAMSTON. 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 

Royat GARDENS, Kew, to COLONIAL OFFICE. 
SIR, Royal Gardens, Kew, 18th August 1885. 
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 
san, 289 th ‘transmitting, for the information of Sir Joseph Hooker, a 
opy of a despatch from the Governor of Mauritius, with enclosures 
relating to the protinstion i oF new planting industries, in the Colony, I 
am to make the following remarks on a perusal of a papers : — 
belest of average eal yi is ais to an enormous extent in various 
parts of the world. If it can be grown “of a quality re ee good 
to emery S SS pa in Réunion” it would certainl y seem 
to deserve encouragement in Mauritius 
3. With — to tea, Sir Joseph Hooker thinks that due caution 
must be exercised. Mauritius will have to meet the competition of 
Ceylon and India, i in which the cultivation is capable of almost indefinite 
xpansion. Tea, moreover, to be a profitable industry, is om depen- 
ent on an exact "adjustment of the supply of labour. It t also b 
remembered that the extension of tea cultivation in Tacritina means 
the ultimate destruction of the little remaining high-level forest. 
4. man attention ought undoubtedly to be paid to Cinchona. 
Reference may be made to ‘the report of Her Majesty’s Consul at Réunion, 
dated Avgast 25th, 1881, which shows that in that island, at any rate, the 
