MAURITIUS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4607, 30 May 1872, Page 3

MAURITIUS.

We have received copies of the Port Louis Commercial Gazette and of La" Sentinelle de Maurice to April 1. The chief items of news relate to the labour question. A commission haB been appointed to inquire into the truth of sundry charges which have been raised against the planters of the colony, the Protector of Immigrants, the Police Department, the Magistrates, and the Council, by a certain pamphleteer. ."It will be the business of the Commission to see how far these charges are founded in truth j whether flogging is, or was at any time, systematically resorted to in the Immigration DepOt, as a means either of maintaining discipline, or of satisfying the ferocious propensities of the Protector ; whether the planters systematically and relentlessly ill-use their labourers, beatiug them, defrauding them, aud oppressing them by every possible means ; whether the Magistrates and the Protector, violating their duties, violating their oaths, shamelessly connive at the deeds of infamy said to be committed by the planters ; whether the Legislature favours- and abets, or did at any time favour and abet, all such alleged fraud and oppression. If any of the counts of the long indictment filed against the colony be proved, it will be the duty of the Commission to pass judgment accordingly ; and, not improbably, their judgment will be follqwed up with recommendations as to the course to be followed in future. "

Strangers to Auckland must necessarily feel puzzled 1 u to the best establishment ,aj which to procure clothing »nd other requisite articles for' gentleman on a journey. Samuel Coombes therefore begs respectfully that they will call at the City Clothing Mart, 80, Queen street, just abore the Daili Southern Cioss office,' irhero they will be able to choose, from the most raried and best-selected stock in the colony, comprising clothing, hosiery, ties, and scarfs, linen and paper collars of all, styles, white and coloured shirts, flannel and Crimean shirts, under, clothing of evary , description, hats, portmanteaux, travelling- and carpet-bags, perfumery, and other . ■ toilet* necessaries, &c, &c. There is also a 'large . . . tailoring, department ..connected, .with, the- Clothing Mart, which— although but lately started— has, 'from ■ the -excellent slyl* and flt.of the garments turned out, taken first place in the trade. Specialty— to which the attention of trarellers is called : Any garment made 'within 24 hours, and tv irreproachable fit guaranteed.— S. Cooamis, City Clothing* Mart, .80/ (Jnpen-»trees, .TaJ^oriu,, EstabJUhment, High-street.?-(Apt» < - i • Some people' like pheasants'} bat others do not* i t Some fools ijke tettint; dr.unk ; • but all wise mth like ,. gdod jewellery ; and w« at* only waiting ; for some of ' our numerous friends to make us a present of one of the beautiful 'watches at -Baker's, in Victoria-itrett, - opposite th.Eoyal Mail HoteL-(ADt.) <„ ■ ■ We hara examined the stock of, lockets, some 400 in ' all, at If. H. Lewissob'a, jeweller,, Queen-street) and ■pronounce th«m the b«st assortment in the colonies. • • ;HaT» you seen tba secret locket to contain four likenesses?—(Act.) »T ' in ,+ i'il \ , , - <• It's an ill wind that blows nobody good."— By this w« mean that aomebodr Is benefited by erery curranW , > nliet'iqn©, of those. itßbjrs waft yow to the,dctor of 1 üßsJterV^weU<r;^(ftoriikStrMtu BsJterV^weU<r;^(ftoriikStrMt, f 'oibPOsite^lo Eoyal MaUfloteljypu.willnotregretlt-KAj)^ *• i MARAVILL A' (XKJOAr— No Bmcaxs-ast TaSli is . OanPLMi Without this Diuoioos B*vuuatf-The * ' ■ OloK»says/'yariouJiimporteriandmanuf»pJurerahave attempted to attain a reputation for their prepared . ' : Cocoasrbut wdfloubt whethsr an* -thorough success had been Mhiared until Messrs. Taylor Brothers dis.'«»T»rtd .the'Mtraordinaty qualUies of 'MaraTiUa; „, ,<Joop%' Adapt'ng their perfect system of preparation ' tdthli finest of all species of the Thoobroma., they lure pro4actd an article which supersedes ewry othn r ; „. ,^ Coco* in thsumark»t.v-4ntir«.«QlubUity t ,» JellcatV aroma, and % rar» concentration of the purett elemeptßi v, .. * of.nutriUony.dJstlufTilsh the.Mars-vilW^cp^ikbo^eaa other*, Fpf,Jipinpippathsan4lnTalld«.ite.qouldflotre,,,i | v oommen^.a, mprf agr.«eabl»- pr, jralaable,, vfirehgo.' If i <,'^H3old in; pwkets by.allfrootrs.^ whonialMo may be •na SolublSchooolat*. Lane,

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