ISO TlMEHRI. 
events would have been held this year, to 1885, provid- 
ed that the Governor and Court of Policy gave their 
sanction to the postponement. 
The Forestry Exhibition. — The Honorary Secretary 
read a letter from the Hon. W. Russell, thanking the 
Society for the honor they had done him by electing him 
to represent it at the forthcoming Forestry Exhibition 
at Edinburgh. 
Mauritius and Indian Sugar. — The Hon. Secretary 
read the following letter dated 15th January, from Mr. 
Kirke, Acting Emigration Agent for the Colony, at Cal- 
cutta : — 
I have the honour to forward to you, per ship The Bruce, which sailed 
for Demerara this morning, a box containing 21 samples of the Mauri- 
tius sugars exhibited in the Calcutta Exhibition, which I have obtained 
through the courtesy of Mr. Desplissis, the agent in charge of the Mau- 
ritius couit. I thought that those sugars which obtain the highest 
prices in the Indian and Australian markets, would prove of interest to 
the members of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society. I 
have also forwarded in The Bruce, in care of Dr. Ireland, a small box 
containing samples of Indian sugar manufactured by Carew's Co. at 
their Rosa sugar mill in the North-West Provinces, as I thought it 
might be interesting to the Society to see what is done in India in the 
way of sugar manufacture. These sugars of Messrs. Carew and Co. are 
all made from sugar canes. I enclose a descriptive list of the samples. 
A catalogue of the Mauritius sugar is in the same box as the sample. 
The President said these samples would be very inter- 
esting and he thought when they arrived the thanks of 
the Society should be conveyed to Mr. Kirke for his 
attention. 
The Hon. Secretary said he had already written to 
Mr. Kirke, conveying the best thanks of the Society, 
feeling sure the Society would endorse his action. 
(Hear, hear.) 
