prepared io kivile our ai o mini Md PE es ý to give 
-every reasonable support to sugar factories and refineries which may y 
eateblistred by private STU 
, The Right Hon. Viscount Craig GCE D. M. 
i coc Mer r Majesty’ s Secretary of State for India. 
d: Foni Messrs. J. Pein RS AND Sons, Lr, to the Usb 
, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA 
Lo SE May 8, 1889. 
: We are obliged by your letter dated 4th instant, with ence to` 
A sugar in India, and we have carefully looked through ‘the accompa nying 
pod reports and statistics. di 
The average production of India is given as a ton of sugar per ae 
the produce (with the excoption of the three moderi mills i 
Madras) is of a most wretched zs 
e West Indies (which are also backward) sugar growers ‘obtain 
two ‘ei .of sugar per acre, or double the Indian average, and, 
3 modern machinery, properly erystallized sugar can be made direct 
so. the cane dagy at a cost on the spot (that is, without carriage) 
Boe. A 10s. per 
It is no rae ubt the competition of such direct cane sugar 
Mauritius which is leading to the closing of refineries in as W 
imagine, those Refineries work, not from the sugar-cane, bat from coarse 
native su 
| Stel as bbw but this is altogether iaa “ate | | 
refineries in Mauritius where sugar is remelted, and the refi of the 
island is simply raw sugar properly made by modern processes, 
It is such sugar that India ought to mak he Empire, wi 
sufficiently improred eultivation aud ve—— might re readily BUD 
the world with sugar. Refining is a a sii, process, lil 
altogether die out, U^ slow w degrees, as cane and beet manufacture ! 
comes more donet. The disappearance of nanag in Bengal, t i 
` hard upon individuals, is really a sign that there is progress el 
ay ; than Bengal 
and progress which no country is better adapted. 
"Phat modern sugar can be well made in India is shown by 
Minchin at Aska, Madras, and it is simply absurd that Indi 
have first to export the "labour to. Mauritius, rep n to 
sugar from that distant island, which geli | | as well 
n i rus poa ai a 
. & large ex d dl hie d r insten | ; | 
NE rj > cor fe ey (or, as. it is pde p 
Ao to y Seen must be on a large scale, because it inv 
.. machi and chemical Lies supervision. 
bably do not extract one-third of the 
