, 1893-01-28

age turned over each year, and add to the
sugar exported, $500 tons for annual con-
sumption in the colony, and the yield Will De
found to be, approximately, l45 tons lst
sugar per acre or 1.65 tons all sugals.
During The year the following estates were
abandoned, but their acreage has not been de-
Quoted from the table given above OF the cane
cultivation as by acreage tax returns Belalr
1891 acres; and Friendship, 237 acres. Pins.
Greenfield 475 acres, Blenheim 300 acres,
and Vive-la-Force 159 acres, are now being
cropped with the view to abandonment. Pin.
Perseverance, with 623 acres in canes. was
sold for S24, 900, and Pin. Friendship for
1900, both sales being by the Administrator
General. Pin. Annandale, 1000 acres in
canes, and Pin. Stewartville, 538 acres IN
canes, are now offered for sale by the Adj
ministrator Genera as representing the bank
rupt estate Of Stewart Gardner. The sus-
pension Of payment 10y Messrs. Thomas
Daniel & Sons, I'd. London, an old and re-
spected firm Of merchants connected with the
West Indies, threatened to do considerable
Z injury to he colony. They we're the owners
Of plymouth Manor, an estate that has given
handsome profits for many years. They were
also financially connected with Chateau
Margot, Versailles and Hague; and it is for
LOnaL6 IOI Ln0 COLONY LutG CnCpC CoCoOCo l@F
not been hampered by the hol SEES failure.
The following amalgamations have taken
place.-Herstel ing, 456 acres in canes, has
been added to the Pin. Diamond; and Enter
prise on the East Coast. 6O5 acres in canes,
las been added to Pin. NouparieI. Writer'S
in the local press who are not connected with
the sugar industry refer to the amalgamation
of estates as q serious mis- eke, but Il central
factory ON a large scale with the best ma.
chinely appliances and scientific skill, pre-
selts the only means of manufacturing sugar
economically and p ohtably; and small estates
can only pay under exceptionally favourable
conditions.
The labour supply was by no means equal
to the demand during the year, and as the
gold industry is steadily |. creaslng, an IN
ereasing number Of immigrants will have to
be Introduced annually to meet the wants of
the sugar estates. A few yea. s ago the plan
ters reduced their Applications for Immigrants,
but the following fgules show that increasing
numbers are now being receiVed:-
1898 E. Indian immigra / is introduced 2,9o8
1889 3.341
1890 4,6l(
1891 5,OO7
1892 0,Z4l
An annual introduction at least 1000 East
Indian immigrantsl ~ necessary to keep
estates supplied and maintain the area now
under cane cultivation.
The prospects for the year about to begin
are favourable. Fields reaped during the
past three months have, genera ly speaking,
ratooned we'll, and SO far The weather has
been moderate. Young canes aPPrar vigorous,
and as extensive supplying Is not required,
they should be we'll advanced wh u due for
feaping in the end Of 1893 Very little sugar
will be made before March, and not a great dt.al
altogether during the first SIX months Of the
coming year. The outlook for the sugar indus
try is not perhaps very brig BIT just now, but it
is better than it has been at various periods
during past years. The EUROPEAN beet sugar
industry, which is the greatest factor to be
considered in connection with sugar prospects,
has not Increased during the past few
years, although previous to that it made very
rapid progress. The following statement is
interesting =
1851 :. 1859, 233 tons.
1986-87 !. :. 1926, 442 "
1889-9O ;. 1921 67 "
1s9O.91 :. >. 3,695.568
1912 -. $780, 27
1S92-93 estimated 3,4I0, 600 "
IT. - $3.50 ;,l,,4,x, Jnoc VCt