, 1892-07-06

the country, and above all he studied the
Indians. A few years later his reputation as
an authority on all matters connected with the
Indians led the Colonial Office to appoint
him to a resident lnagistracy on the Pomp-
room river. During his tenure Of this post
he assembled Mount Roraima, being the first
to accomplish this seemingly impossible feat,
and published his book Among The Indians in
Guiana. Quite recently his reputation as an
administrator and his cientif a~ttainments
have led to his being placed in sole charge Of
the extensive and little-known district, some
5000 miles square, lying along the Venezue-
Ian frontier, of which he is the absolute and
undisputed ruler.
1t is not often we re d of a West Indian
Governor takinga leading part in social-com.
mercial undertakings, it under this classified
ton we may describe the movement in Bar
bados to supply the want Of a theatre. At
all enthusiastic meeting held last week in
Bridgetown, Governor Hay took the chair.
and when DR.. Gaskin and Mr.. Brewster
strongly urged the suitability Of q site in the
vicinity Of the Town Hall, His Exoellency
said he was of a like opinion and he would do
all in his power to secure it. The Company
is probably registered by this time, and we
may regard it as certain that before the close
of The year we shall hear of the existence Of
the new theatre. Our neighbours have gone
about it in a business like manner.
For once during the progress Of the fratri-
cidal butchory that has been going on for
some months past, the w. /. & Panama
Telegraph Company have given us a news
message concerning it. In a telegram this
week we are told that General Crespo ia
massing troops at Puerto Cabello, and that an
important battle is imminent. According to
the v~eracious reporter of the Nev York Herald,
a decisive battle has been imminent since the
beginning of April, but somehow or other it
has not come off. In kilograms forwarded
to the same paper under date Maraoaibo, May
10th, it is reported that Bolivar was then in
the hands OF the insurgents, and that Con.
eraI Rodil had been shot by his own troops,
and his head carried by one of the soldiers
on the point of his sabre into Bolivar. Bnt
rs against this news We hear from q merchant
in Water Street who has large transactions
with correspondents in the capital of tie
Orinooo, that he has received ~letters from
there dated May Is, in which no mention
whatever is made of the city having been
captured or disturbed. Regarding one inn
portant and highly dramatic incident tho
Herald reporter Is now established by the
Herald itself to be a really magnificent
fahricator. He stated hat Crespo's son
had been captured and handed over to-
Palaoio who was preparing to torture him SO
as to elicit information from Crespo's wife
regarding her husbands movements. and that
young Crsspo was to be shot as soon ~
his father approached within a certain dis.
lance Of Caracoas, We now learn from an
authentic source that young Crespo was
taken into Bolivar and til It 6, vernon Siegert
Of that city gave him a pass to leave the
country, in a steamer then about to depart.
The steamer touched at Trinidad and young
Crespo seems to have landed and remained
there. The Herald itself gives an account Of
the young lads escape" in Port-of- Spain.
One thing 10 certain about the revolution
that which ever side may win, the country
is being rendered insolvent By the enormous
drain upon its revenues. At the Custom
House, La Guayra, there is hardly any money
being received, and President Palaolo is
finding it difficult to keep his Court and
Military establishments together, for neither
civilians nor soldiers like to work without
pay consequently it is possible that the
struggle may have to come to an end soon.
We read, in connection with the firing hy
mistake on the French steamer Canada
which we noticed in our columns two weeks
ago that the authorities of Puerto Cabello
have acknowledged their error, and Ven
ezuela has arranged to pay $4,000 "a COM