, 1877-10-31

49, - Sob HAS 6lVSA u0o OOOB
intense. and the occasional showers,
though frequent, have not lowered the
range of the thermometer. Sugar estates
are being got into order for the planting
season. and everything but manure and
IaOour seems to be available now. Cocoa
Is rlpening rapidly, and some has been
picked ard made ready for shipments
the promise of a good r~eapiug is every
where existing. and hopes ralge high as
fe9arcs more remuneratiVe markets. From
many new cocoa fields there will ba
plcklngS during the year, aud altogether
the markets are likely to be better sup
Piled, if not with sugar, at all events with
Spices coc'a and provisions, Rumour
mas 1t that Grenada is to be confederated
with Trinidad, and will necessarily become
The kltchen-garden for that m~odstnnscolo-
ny our proprletors will, therefore haye
something TO fall back upon even though
sugar growing may have suuk blow par.
Inc growth of cane has been vigorous of
late and p%'auteTs are beginning to look
with Enlightened countenance upon their
prospect for crop"
Messrs. Tirion & Thutkow, a %violinist
ana pianist, have been giving concerts at
st. Georges, Grenada.
The state of the roads is bad. when
was 1T otherwise in Grenada y Bat it
IS likely to contiuue bad, according to the
CAronlclc, which says:
"1here is a great disincliuation on the
part OF job1lrs to work on the highways
for the middlemen and entre peneurs con-
tlnually put them off on their wages SO
as to create dissatisfaction /; then it is
stated that the money appropriated has
been exhausted, aud labourers are told to
wait until some future time and so the
Old game runs on"
The Trinidad Chronicle says that G,ena.
ia is taking a place, eecond only to Trini-
dad IN the production OF the cho-
coIate bean, and remarks about Grenada
That while Cane-growing has rather retro
graded In that island, Cocoa, Nutmeg and
Provlslon-growing for export, with the
raising OF stock to supply our markets.
have taken its place aud struck deep root.
They can be carried on upon a much
smaller seals, aud arc very little if at all
dependent on external capital ; the whole
value of exports is maintained and the
capacity of purchasing imports is unim-
paired.
The spread of nutmeg cultivation 10 the
island has been very rapil. The writer OF
this notice, when a Rector in Grenada
thirteen years ago, buried an old Scotchmau,
named Kennedy, under the 6rst nutmeg
tree ever planted IN Grenada. 1t had been
planted by him, along with two or three
other nutmeg slips, on his Estate Bellevue.
From them, in the life time of this one
man, the whole island had been overspread.
and the rutmeg had become one OF the
regular exports of the coloay. A beat tltui
sight is o clump OF nutmeg trees when the
fruit is just fuI! ripe. The froit is very like
a peach, and bursts open at bottom, dls-
closing the nutmeg, which is however
we'll wrapped up il it to'ds Of bright red
mace. The pulpy outside of the trsit
is thrown away, the mace and the nutmegs
are gathered in with very little trouble
or expense. Except in some spots on the
North side, we should think st. Croix
entirely too dry for nutmeg cultivation.
TRINIDAD. tax
From The Chronicle we take this Ex-
tract - rs
Sugar manufacture. tending increasing
lY to great estates and more expensive
machinery, is more attracted to a colony
of great plains like this where liberals