3-011-843 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Statue of Sir W. Stevenson, late Governor of the Mauritius, 1864. 'The model has just been completed, at Rome, of a statue about to be erected in bronze, at Port Louis, the capital of the Mauritius, to the memory of, Sir William Stevenson, K.C.B...The work was intrusted to M. d'Epinay, who, by a most appropriate circumstance, is himself a native of the Mauritius. Sir William Stevenson's services, indeed, deserved some such memorial as this; though their best monument will doubtless be the good that will result from the administrative, educational, and financial reforms he effected; and, from the satisfactory manner in which he settled what, at the Mauritius, is the most practical and important of all questions, that of the immigration and regulation of Coolie labour'. ("Coolie" is an offensive term previously used in reference to unskilled labourers, often Indian or Chinese). From "Illustrated London News", 1864.