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sixth, it may perhaps suffice if the danger which it indicates is carefully borne in mind on the appointment of new Magistrates. If it is so, all risk of mischief from this source will gradually disappear.
I have, &c. (Signed)
ARTHUR GORDON.
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Inclosure 1 in No. 2.
Extract from the Mauritius Emigration Agent's Letter at Calcutta, dated May 25, 1871.
I REGRET to say that the means adopted to secure this object have not been as successful as I could have wished, owing to the very serious and, I fear, increasing difficulty which I, in common with the other Colonial agents, continue to experience in procuring a sufficient number of women of any class or from any district.
The foregoing remarks exclusively refer to the scarcity of women, but in the presence of an abundant grain crop throughout the country, and the active competition for coolie labour for other places, which offer greater inducements, they are seen to apply with almost equal force to the labouring classes of both sexes generally, which for & time threatened a total stoppage of emigration to Mauritius, despite the extensive arrangements made, and high rates of commission I have been forced to give in order to comply with the large number of unsatisfied requisitions.
Inclosure 2 in No. 2.
Extract from the Mauritius Emigration Agent's Letter at Calcutta, dated October 30, 1871.
IN addition to the disadvantages above-mentioned, the competition for labour continues as active as ever; the demands for the West India Colonies are unusually heavy, added to which some thousands of men are required by Government for the Looshai expedition at comparatively high rates of wages, viz., 10 rupees per month, and rations.
Inclosure 3 in No. 2.
Extract from the Mauritius Emigration Agent's Letters at Madras.
As the requisitions for coolies from this Presidency are many, and as the recruitment of emigrants from the interior has proved almost a failure, I beg that the Immigration Committee's hint to establish a sub-agency in the south be adopted.
Our Agency has to contend against the Ceylon, Godavery, and French Agencies. I wrote in to Government by the "Latons," which left this on the 24th December, stating as the requisitions have been numerous and are increasing, that additional inducements should be held out to emigrants, especially to return emigrants, so as to enable me to procure the large number required.
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