MAURITIUS.

Wellington Independent, Issue 43, 24 December 1845, Page 3

MAURITIUS.

P..|)T5 fo the eD<l of September have ixtn rp. Ofiiveii, n<-d they contain some matU-i". The Legislative Council whs sitting, and one of the l fir>t fjueitiuns brought before it was—what j> here cilled a nuisance—what is in the whole of Mauritius a terrot—the intermiiable number of dog«. In vain have the pjliee regulations bsen made in the Mauritius, in v in lax/ja iunposed .upon 4°ge importe'l—in Vain the fearful ravages of hydrophobia : but the question has now been taken up in good' earnest by the Legislature • every, man rau>t pay for evtry dog he keeps £2 per annum for registration, and 10s. per aunuin as.-a ,t>x—and the dog , in summer months must Oe muzzeied'—a collar is no protection; ur the do* is to bejcilled, and the killer to icceive a reward of -£-2.,-. Moreover an inspector of police informed of dogs not being registered or not muzzled,' ha< authority to enter houses or upon premises to search for them; 1 hsse are the chief, points in the measure, which has been carried by the Government with a view to put some protective agency in force against tKe ravages of mad dogs \ 'I lie next tubjetit which appears to have engaged the attention of the LegMitive Council is an alteration in the system of licences for the selling of spirituous liquo s,—the alteration to be confined. ,howe?«r, to the siting of ruin ; but at the Hut sitting of the Legislative Council spot n of in the pape'fs beforfe us, no Ordmince had beed issued. On the subject of Coolie Immigration, another Committee of tlie Legislative Council had been appointed, arid had repoited. The Governor's repir to the report had not Been given, but we give below an abstract cfthe principal recommendations of the Select Committee":—"That regulations thouldbe. made to prevent immigrants from returning to India, until the peiiod for 'which they have agreed tj serve shall have ehp-ed, except on their defra-,iog a due proportion of the charges for their convey^nce to, as well as the whole charge from, Mauriiius; to provide that % return passage be refused altogether to those who have noc serred or resided in tl<s colonyfor the period for wliu b. they engaged, or any part theresf.' Then fohow recommendations of regulation equally stringent upon the employers, for the L jrotec ion of the Coolie labourers; but the Committee < f the Legislative Council appear to dwell with earnestness upon tbe ne'eessi y tf a scale of pains and p. nalties for iieglectof work, and absence fr;tn phiiutions, in p oporti.n to the neglect, or to iheleng'h of absence, or to the number of offeuces. as likely to prove a more effectual remedy tiian -ny other, vtve and except the dom? away by force of police wi'h the crimp system, which, is cirried ou at the labju'r bazair.— ycnev Herald.