NEW CALEDONIA.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 254, 27 March 1860, Page 3

NEW CALEDONIA.

(From the Sydney Morning Herald.) We are in receipt of intelligence from New Caledonia up to the 19th February. The details furnished by the" local paper (the Moniteur Imperial) are for the most part of a meagre and unsatisfactory character.

By the Moniteur Imperial jot the 12th of the same month, it would appear that land was still applied for, and arrangements made for the sale of it to numerons intending purchasers by the Government.

The cemetery of tbe_ Port of France is to be properly enclosed, and the same steps are (where ftinds, permit) to be taken with the cemetery of Kanala, or Napoleonviile.

A decree, containing 11 different sections, bearing date the 20tli of April, 1859, and signed by Durand, has been published in the local papers (the Moniteur Imperial of the 19th February, 1860), against the introduction into the colony of " drinks which are of such a nature as to endanger the public health." The provisions of this decree are of a very. slriDgent description. The sixth article is as follows: —" When the drinks recognised as being, a of a bad quality shall have been prohibited or submitted for re-exportation, mention shall be, made of that circumstance on the ship's papers. They are not, on any pretence, to be landed or sold at any other place, or upon any one of the dependencies of the colony. Every master of a vessel, merchant, or other resident declared to have acted against this decree, shall be liable to be fined from 500 to 2000 franca, without prejudice to the penalties incurred under the 318 th article of the penal code, if the drinks contain anything injurious to health; The confiscation, of the liquids shall always take place." A commission/ composed of an officer of the garrison and two surgeons, are to assist the commissary of police in his somewhat ! ia<|U!stoml duties under tbia