, 1877-12-12

%concourse of people, hnd was keenly cen.
tested. The five estates were all bought
by Messrs Oregon, Turnbull & Co. through
their agent Mr.. Hugo Hoffman, for q total
amount of $433 600. The total average
of the properties is 3,643 ceres, and the
crop OF next year 10 estimated at 5000
hogsheads. Ten per cent Of the purchase
money was to be pnid on the fall of the
hammer, and the remainder in ID days.
The purchasers, however, already hold
some mortgages on the estates for advances
and supplies. Anyhow. such a sale
proves that there is much capital ready
10 be invested 10 this n agni6csnt island,
and that there is a strong confidence
in it's resources for the future. At the
auction there were even many labourers
present, who seemed, the Chronicle says,
to take q keen and nervous interest In
the biddings."
The Jorawur, an immigrant ship, has
arrived at Port of Spain after q voyage
of 100 days from the Hooghly. $50
coolies embarked, but from an epidemic
of measles 25 died on the passage.
Another ship, the Ganges, has also left
Calcutta with emigtants for Trinidad, and
a third is TO follow.
The Trinidad railway is to be extended
to and beyond ChaRuapas. One number
of the Chronicle is almost entirely taken
up with the speech made by Mr.. Des
Veux. the Lieutenant Governor, to the
Legislative Council on this subject.
GRENADA.
The Fteemasons have had a new Lodge
conSecra'ed and established in t e town
nf Grenville, which 10 on the coast OF she
island, in the parish of St. Andrew. The
Lodge is No. 6O3.
We take the following from the Chroni-
Gle packet summary:
The weather has been all that can be
desired for planters of every description,
but the appearance OF the country, more
especially the eastern portion, in which
the principal sugar estates lie, is not such
az 10 lead to very extended anticipations
for next years sugar crops Cocoa is being
got in rapidly, and Of a good chAracter, aud
lids fair to 0utrun last years yielding.
The roads, as may be supposed, have suf-
cred greatly from the excessive r~ainfaIIs,
and will largely tax the energy and skill
Of our Surveyor to bring them back to
tteir ordinary state. The deplorabIe
dana ge done by the food of the 18th, in
St. Andrews and St. Patrick's is very
great. at will require over El0OO,"
says an experienced planter iu St. Andrews,
..to repair the roads in this parish alone"
The River Antoine flooded the Belmont
works, and at the River Antoine Estate
carried away 8 acres Of excellent canes;
the ridge over the river at DunfeIm milne
Estate has been carried completely away,
the only trace remaining is a bit of para
pet wall. Everywhere, land slides have
occurred, carrying away and destroying
oooa 'utmegs. provisions, &c.-Some
properties are in the English
viz, Clarke's Court, a sugar
j the parish of st. George; and
Stanhope. q cocoa property in St.
MAX. These estates are to be sold by the
West India Incunbered Estates Commits.
sion, and their being SO suddenly brought
to the hammer il, We are told. in a great
measure owing to the ill-advised activity
of certain legal missionaries. And two
other estates, the Mount Rodney and the
.1xount alexander. advertised to be sold on
the 9Th December next, are likely to be
further postponed, in consequence of pro,
ceedings in Chancery relating to those
properties which appear to US to have
snch tendancv.-Frorn CarriacOu we hear