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COLONIAL ITEMS.
Mr.. James Robert Longden, @. NJ. G.; the
newly appointed Governor of British Guia-
ma, is a gentleman who has risen to high office
entirely through his own merits for, although
of gentle birth, he lacks what is called /" family
interest" During the twelve years which he
has served in the Westindies, he has worked
honestly for the welfare of the several COM
munities which ne has ruled and he is des-
cribed as a hard working safe man, who spares
himself no pains to do his duty. Mrs. Long
den is the elder daughter Of the Hon. James
S. Berridge Of St. Kits.
One or two letters have appeared in. the
Times, from parties in a position to speak
with authority upon the subject. protesting
against the system which allows Of the intro.
duction Of "bounty fed'' sugar to the injury
of that manufactured in the colonies.
Mr.. Julian Pauncefote, the newly appointed
Chief Justice Of the L9eward Islands, leaves
for Antigua by the outgoing mail As Attor-
ney-GeneraI of Hong Kong he established his
reputation chiefly by his skiIfuj legislation for
the British Consular Courts in China. So
AMY tuu no lC5LSIOt6 III CIto lC"pCCG tHdG tId
Mikado's Government has asked to have the
same system introduced into the British Com
sular Courts in Japan. If Mr.. Pauncefote will
devote his ability, says the Europ. Mail, to
introducing into the Leeward Islands q simple
system of transfer for landed property-such
for Instance as that in use for British Guiana
the West Indian proprietors would feel very
grateful to him.
The Spanish "Over-sea" Department of
Education oontempIates the establishment, at
no distant date, of two normal training colleges
for schoolmasters, the one in the island of
Cuba and the other at Porto Rico. These
colleges are TO be placed Professionally under
the supervision Of teachers from the Peninsula,
and these gentlemen are to receive salaries
varying from 5000 to 1900 p%esetas from
$4,000 to S6U00)
At DEMERARA it was contemplated to erect
a church in georgetown for the accommodation
of the Chinese converts to Christianity, as well
as a Church Institute. The Health Officer
for the city of Georgetown, in his Report to the
Town Council, showed up an excess of nearly
l P ct. in the death-rate Of last year over the
birth rate, and phthisis seemed to be the most
fatal deSease which prevailed in the citv.
Ooolie immigration, as usual, is going a head
q batch of 534 immigrants had arrived from
Calcutta, twenty deaths during the passage
before they reached ST.. Helena occurred, but
none after they left that place. The colony
was blessed with continued showery weather
which was highly favourable for agricultural
operations, while trade remained in an exceed
ingly depressed condition. Grinding had not
yet been generally resumed after the holidays
but som sugar had been MADE and shipped to
Europe.
Nominal quotations for Dmerara produce
may be regarded as firm and good V. P.
white, Sc; dark yellow to good, 1925 a $3.50;
Musoovado, 1915 "a 4.25.
The exports of the colony during a fortnight
had been-Sugar: 1902 hhds, 25 tres. 2,736
bbls, 5000 bags. Rum 1907 puns., 1G7
hhds., 1877 bbls. MolasSes: 800 casks. Tim
Der 9,2I8 cubic feet. Charcoal 500 bbls.
In literary as we'll as in agricultural pursuit
progress was the order of the day as exempli-
fed in the attempt which is being made by
certain Iaymen and other members of the High
Church, to establish a paper exclusively as a
Church organ, from which journal politics,
social questions, science, and law were to be
excluded.
The most important item of news from
BARBADOS is the state of the crop. Although
a falling off of about 5000 hhds of the expected