, 1877-12-15

0APoIs uuiy, CoiCulHieU al
SlS'ooU' 10 based on the assumption that
the crop will be 10000 hhds.
Inc government is about to appoint a
Commission to examine into and report on
the whole question OF local taxation. We
md thst the import duty in Antigua is
l2t per cent, heavy enough, as we here
IN st. CroIx Know to our cost.
The Federal Council was opened in
Antigua on 9Th November. His Excel.
lency said in bis opening speech tina. forty
tw0 bills were to be introduced in the
Council. We wish the Council ioy of
such heavy work.
NEVIS.
This little island is now made entirely
q prown Colony. The Act authorizes
her Majesty the Queen of England to
appoint. by her Royal Warrant, six per-
sons to form a Council to I~egislate for the
Presidency. The Governor, or any men,
Der when he by writing appoints to act
In his absence, shall preside, and have both
a deliberative and a casting vote. Three
members make a quorum.
In reference to this change 10 Nevis we
and Governor Berkeley Of the Leeward
Islands Confederation speaking thus to
the Federal Council:
The provision made by you to meet
the circumstances consequent upon the
proposed change 10 the form of Govern
ment in the Island of Nevis, induces ms
to believe that you concur in the views
of the local Legislature as to the expedi.
ency OF such Q course, and hat it is pos
sible hat the initiative thus take bv our
sister Presidency may at no distant period
be more generally adopted, and lead to
Constitutional Teformt resulting ia the
further development of the principles held
prominently in view when the system of
Confederation was originally applied to
this Colony"
ST. KITS.
In the newspapers of this island it is
stated that Mr. Hugh Riley Semper, At
torney General of Barbados, is provision
ally appointed to be Attorney General CT
the Leward Islands. This office he resign
ed In order to carry out the Confederation
scheme 10 Barbados. At least, it is sup.
posed with good reason that the Colonial
Office had this in view when he was re-
moved 10 Barbados. AS that scheme has
now hopelessly collapsed through the
plucky determination of the Barbadian
Legislature not 10 commit suicide by
decreeing their own dissolution, and as
the British Government was unwilling to
kill them. Mr.. Hennessy was removed,
and now it seems his chief satellite, Mr..
Semper, clears out also. AS we said in a
former issue, when the move was first
spoken OF, we wish both the Barbadlans
and the Kittiphonians 1--WE believe that is
the name of St. Kits PEG lel joy of the
move.
TIE 81. KITS advertiser and the Domina-
ca People, as quoted in the 81. IHome
Tidende, tell the following story of the
way the Federal Steamer Onion does her
work, a way iD which even our old
V'g10nt in her most surly moods would
never behave.
They find a good deal of fault with
the Encouragement of the Federal
steamer Union. In the words of the journal
that vessel is, at present, "handled Ivy
incompetent individuals. as witness for
instance, on her route from Antigua to
Dominica on the 25th ultimo she took
upwards of twenty four hours. the
officer 10 consequence Of i~ncapabiiity it
would Seem. not being able to make that
port till midday of the following day.