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“ The value of tea imported during 1884 was Rs. 34,502. The value 
of the quantity exported in the same year was Rs. J 1,804. The value of 
the quantity consumed in the Colony was Rs. 32 698 for that year. The 
supplies came reme eod from England, et Aet Hong Kong, and 
Singapore. Several parties are now begin to take an interest in 
tea cultivation, ida. it is to be hoped their JN rud will p crowned by 
succes 
The ‘next step in the establishment of a tea industry in Mauritius 
appears to have been taken by Sir John Pope Hennessy in 1886. Ina 
letter addressed to the Secretary of State he gives the following par- 
ticulars of the measures undertaken by him to secure supplies of seed 
and a competent person to start the curing of tea 
Sin J. P. Hennessy to EARL GRANVILLE. 
Government House, Mauritius, 
My Lorp 3rd August 1886. 
I Have the honour to report that the sor of tea plants now 
growing in Mauritius amounts to about 25,000. 
2. I enclose for your Lordship’s information copies of letters I have 
addressed to the Governor of Madras and the Lieutenant Governor of 
Bengal, asking them to assist me in getting various seeds egets for 
the various salma plantations, and also to engage the services for 
this Government of two men well accustomed to the n and 
curing of tea, and a man conversant with pasa curing of tobac 
(Signed) - M J. Pore HENNESSY, 
The Right Hon. Earl Granville, K.G., 
&e, &e. &e 
An article on the cultivation of tea in Mauritius was published in the 
Revue Agricole, a local agricultural paper, for April 1887. Following 
this there appears to have been established a small plantation in the 
Government Experimental Farm at Curepipe, and a man with Ceylon 
experience in tea cultivation and curing was placed in charge of it. 
The more recent results are given in the following correspondence :— 
Sir, Downing Street, 9th September 1892. 
I am directed by the Secretary of State for the eri to 
transmit to you for your information the ying copy of a 
despatch from the Acting Governor of inii xis Pg reports 
upon the experimental tea industry of Mau 
m, &c. 
The Director, Royal Gardens, Kew. (Signed) R. H. MEADE, 
Government House, Mauritius, 
Mr Lon». 8th August 1892. 
I wa HAVE the honour to transmit, for your Lordship’s information, 
a copy of a letter which I have received from Mr. Regnard, chairman 
of the Experimental Plantations Committee, enclosing a report from 
_ Mr. Corson relative to the experiment which is being made in tea 
= the colony. 
