The Critic and record., 1891-05-07
BEYOND THE GULF.
NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORs IN THE
TROPICS.

Progress Being Made by the South Amer
lean Republics as Reported by Their
Washington Bureau.
The year 1890 has been very prosper
Gus one i'm Ecuador. The cocoa harvest
was the richest ever gathered in the ooun-
try. other products have also shown
favorable results the coffee crop also being
larger than any previous year, and the
prices very much higher than heayerage.
The exports OF rubber and cinchona bark
show small increase, and 900 tons of
sugar have been exported to Europe.
The total exports for 1890 have ex-
ceeded by SO per cent, the value of exports
of 1850, the largest increase being in CO.
Goa, 40 per cent; coffee, % per cent, and
Cinchuna bark, % per cent The statistics
of imports have not yet been published.
The income of the Government from
customs due in 1890 amounted to 81, 26l,-
2tO.
The Congress passed law granting a
concession to French syndicate for the
purchase of the present railway from
Guayquil to the interior, and for the ex-
tension of the line to RIO Bomba, and ne
gotiations are now in progress to carry it
into effect. Two other concessions were
approved by Congress, first for the con
struction of the Central Railroad from
Bahia to Quito and second for a cart road
from Pailon to lbarra. Both of these
projects are in the hands of English syn
dicates.
The annual report of Governor Kerr, of
the Falkland Islands which lie off the
coast of Patagonia, shows a singular state
of things. There was not a single case,
either civil or criminal, in the courts of
the colony during the year 1889. All the
courts have been practically closed since
1887
Information is received at the Bureau
| of the American Republics that the Bos-
| ton Fruit Company has recently invested
large sum of money in the cultivation
of bananas near Georgetown, British
| Guiana
The Bureau of the American Republics
| has information that the Colonial Gov
| ernment of Trinidad has entered into q
contract with Nlessrs. Turnbull, Stewart
| & Co. for a steamship service between
! Trinidad and the City of New York; also
| for a coastiug service around the Island of
| Trinidad and to the neighboring island of
| Tobago. The contractors agree to run a
steamer fortnightly between New York
and Trinidad, for which they are to re-
ceive subsidy of $1,000 pounds sterling
| per annum. In addition the contractors
are to erect and furnish a hotel at Port
of Spain at a cost of not less than el5,0O0.
Captain Gilbert p. Cotton, special COM
missioner to the republic of Honduras
for the Worlds Columbian Exposition,
writes as follows:
II am happy to see that the prospects
appear to be very good just now for an
active forward movement in many inn
portant enten rises here \ French com
pany is preparing to commence opera.
tions at once in the work of building q
raihoad between this city (Tegucigalpa)
and the Pacific Coast. English engineers
are at Puerto Cortez preparing to extend
the railroad now running rs far as San
Pedro, thirty-ninc miles, to POtrerllos,
seventy miles from the coast. This will
complete one-third of the InteroceaniC
road from the Caribbean Sel to the Pacific.
The representatives of powerful Ameri-
can syndicate are here just now preparing
for the work Of developing some of the
richest mining properties in the country.
Altogether the prospect looks very hope.
ful for this country soon being enabled to
take the place nature intended it to fill
among the progressive nations Of the
world"
Senior Don Benjamin Molina Guirola
the Minister of Salvador at WASHINGTON,
has been appofated, by vote of the Con
gress of his country to the rank of briga-
dier-general for his valuable service in the
recent revolution in Salvador.