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THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST. [May 1, 1903. 
THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE, KASAULI. ■ 
We have received the report of the Director 
of the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli for the second 
year ending 8lh August, 1902 (Punjab Government 
Press: Lahore). There were ,543 patients treated 
during the year, as compared witli 321 in the first 
year. Of these 543 patients 215 were Europeans 
and 328 were natives. As regards the latter, 
Major Semple, the Director, remark.-, " I believe 
every caste in India was represented ;" and he 
apparently means every main Hindu caste, as well 
as Mussalmans, Sikhs and others. - This is the 
only loose statement in the Report ; and in view of 
the prejudice against anti-rabic treatment still 
prevalent amongst the Indians it would be as 
well, we think, if in future Reports a list of actual 
castes and nationalities were given, as an o' ject 
lesson. As regards results of tlie treatment there 
were only five failures (all native ) or 0-92 
per cent of persons treated. In addition, four 
patients (three Natives and one European) con- 
tracted hydrophobia within 15 days after 
the last "inoculation, and two patients (both 
Natives) during treatment. The European 
referred lo was a lady in a delicate state of 
health, severely bitten on the upper Hp, nose 
and cheek, and who came late for treatment. 
The Report remarks :— " It cannot be too forcibly 
impressed upon persons bitten by rabid animals 
the very great importance of early treatment, 
especially if the bites are multiple, or severe, or 
situated on the head or face." This emphasises 
the need for another Institute in Southern India ; 
and it is satisfactory to know that this will soon 
be an accomplished fact, thanks to the benefic- 
ence of Mr. Phipps. It should then be possible for 
every patient in India to come under treatment 
before the fifth day. The Report makes an 
urgent plea that the Railway (companies should 
grant free return passes for. V^^hile 4,36 of the 
cases last year were from dog bi'es and 90 from 
jackal bite», the: e were also five f mm horse bites 
and three from cat bites,— M. Mail, March 24. 
A CAMPAIGN NEAR LAHORE. 
Lahore, March 20.— Endeavoui's have been 
set afoot in the cities of Gr.jrauwala and 
Gujrat to suppress malarial fever by an 
organised campaign against mosquitoes. Hol- 
lows in the ground have been filled up to 
prevent accumulation of stagnant water, and 
water-holes, drains and malarious spots tre.ated 
with kerosine oil. Larger drains are being 
flushed with phenyle. Huge swarms of both 
full grown insects and larvce are reported to 
have been destroyed. -Pioneer, March 22. 
INDIAN COOLIES PROSPER IN TRINIDAD. 
737 BRING £10,000 IN SAVINGS. 
An extraordinary instance of the prosperity of 
Indian emigrants in suitable Colonies has just 
been furnished by a shipload of these people who 
returned to Calcutta on the 24th February by the 
stpamer "Mer-ey" from Trinidad. There were 
737 returning omicrants on board, and they landed 
bringing nearly £10,000 in drafts-, coin and jewel- 
lery. State-regulated emigration to Trinidad ha.a 
gone on now for upwards of half a century : and 
the carefully ke))t records disclose to fact that 
since 1851, when the first Indians began lo come 
back, the returned emigrants have brought with 
them saving to the value of £386,000 actually 
declared. This is, of course, merely what they 
have carried back on their persons and in their 
pockets, and takes no note of the large sums that 
are remiited to India as they are saved. It is 
unfortunate that the Indian cultivator and labourer 
cannot do in hi? own country what he does in 
Trinidad, Mauritius and Natal. But before he 
will turn high wages to good account it seems 
necessary that he should be transplanted away 
from his village, his caste folk and all the 
influenc^^ which conspire to keep him in the 
traditiotial rut. Remove him from these and start 
him in a new country, and from Coolie to Crcosus 
it is but a step, or at any rate a matter of few 
years.— P/oneer, March 18. 
NEW ZEALAND TROUT FISHERIES. 
Captain G D Hamilton, president of the Hawke' 
Bay Angling and Shooting Club, writes as follows 
on some points raised in a recent Times article on . 
the above subject : — 
1st. The anglers in the colony are not a few persons, 
they are thousands, They are not a class, and are 
chiefly working men, who, when they care for the 
sport ; can for a small fee, necessary to keep up the 
supply of fish, have a recreation for seven months of 
the year which relieves the m .notony of their work-life 
and gives them a variety of food. In Scotland nearly 
the whole of the rivers are open to the trout-fiaher. 
There are in thousands working men living near rivers, 
who take care that their sport is not destroyed by the 
trout poacher and netter. Anglers are not always 
amateurs in knowledge ; some of them have mote gen- 
eral knowledge of the habits of fish than any of the 
people employed abont fish hatcheries. I fancy few of 
the experts, have much, if any, experience of fish or 
game in the countries from which they have been im- 
ported. The anglers serve the useful purpose of keeping 
up the interest in acclimatisation, which is otherwise 
apt to flag. Were it not for the anglers, I question if 
there would be trout in New Zealand waters now, All 
this has been done at the priv&te expense of the acolim- 
atisation societies and anglers, who have worked 
without pay. I turned out trout in the North Island 
about 1870. This enables the Government now to 
invite tourists' to enjoy the sport thus provided — a very 
commendable project for thp benefit of hotelkeepers 
and others, and for utilising abont one-third of 
the country too sterile for industrial occupation. 
2nd. It is argued that, under proper restrictions, 
netting can be done without injury to the rivers and 
lakes. I am aware that netting has been sanctioned in 
lakes, and it has been under certain restrictions. 
Who has ever seen these restrictions carried out, or 
who ia going to see them c-irried out if amended 
restrictions are passed ? I predicted when netting waa 
sanctioned in Lake Wakatipu that it would ruin the 
fishing of the district. The lake ia now hardly 
worth netting, It is not a well-known fact that the 
sanctioning the netting of Lake Wakatipu for fish for 
sale has caused all the rivers running into it to be 
cleared of fish and the rivers and lakes to within 
seven miles of Donedin and Invercargill to be poaohed 
for fish and sold in those towns as Like W<tkatipu 
tront ? Eotorua is an instance of the same kind, 
Allowing occupiers of land to fish without a license 
will be found to be very troiiblsome, particularly in 
native districts. So far the Government haa not been 
in a position to protect the rivers and lakes, which 
• wonld entail a lot cf supervision, quite out of the 
power of the police, even in easily accessible places, 
but of course they can help. It is a quarter or half a 
ccntnrv too soon for legalised netting of fresh-water- 
going fish in this country. Except in a few rivers, the 
brown trout, bull trout, sea tront (salino trutta) and 
salmon are barely established. The sea going trout 
travel round the coast, thus stocking riTers and lake 
