MAURITIUS.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 175, 24 June 1859, Page 4

MAURITIUS.

Our advices from this colony are to the loth ult.

A blunder of the Victorian government is thus ueferred to :—

We notice in the Melbourne papers ofthe 16th ApriC that it is officially announced that Mauritius is infected with small-pox, and that vessels are to be placed in quarantine at Melbourne. The government of Victoria have confounded the Island of Bourbon with that of Mauritius. At the former this disease unfortunately has been, with cholera, committing ravages. Here, however, we are and have been perfectly free from all infectious or contagious disease, notwithstanding that there have been introduced since the commencement of the year nearly 17,000 Indians. In several vessels sickness had occurred, and cholera and smalt-pox were not extinct on arrival here. However, the quarantine arrangements have been equal to the demand on them, and no case has appeared in Port Louis or in the country. Between the 7th of April and the 7th of the following month, 505 deaths had occurred in the city of St. Denis from cholera alone. The last reports state that the rate of mortality had sensibly decreased. A proposition in the Legislative Council of Mauritius, that the government should undertake the formation of railways by means of a loan, had been negatived. Sixteen thousand immigrants had arrived since the beginning of the year.— Melbourne Herald, June 8.