, 1908-08-22
THE AVIS.
OAeistiansted, st. &roiy,
Saturday, 22nd August, 1903.

Among the passengers by the Parma was
Mf. H.. Dendtler, of the Sheriff's Office, Free
deriksted, who brings from The States an
extFadited prisoner, the notorious William
or Hezekiah Smith, commonly known as
Queen Mury. It will be remembered that
tAe prisoner ended his criminal career here
by the brutal murder of o young woman at
Betty's Hope. During his Imprisonment for
Ehis crime he broke out aud made good his
escape. He was subsequently arrested for
some crime committed in the States and
now has been sent here under the extradi-
tion treaty between Denmark and the States.
Our readt rs will have seen, from the
official notice from the Central Factory
Company, that quite a liberal additional
payment is to be made On Wednesday next
for canes delivered to the Factory during
the recent Campaign. The payment is 8
Bit, or very nearly 2 cents, for each 100 fbs.
OF cane delivered, which is a marked advance
IN the ( of 3 cent of the previous years.
Reckoning the hogshead as 1900 lbs. sugar
or $4,000 lbs. of canes, we find that this
higher payment is equal TO 4. SO a hogshead.
An estate delivering canes equal to a hun
dred hogsheads of sugar would thus get
$3.50, no uncomfortable addition, in these
hard times, to the income of the estate.
. During the campaign the average price has
been such that it equalled nearly. or per-
haps quite $50 a hogshead. With the lib
erel payment now to be added the total
amount obtained per hogshead will be
between SO and 81 dollars.
The announcement of the decision on the
part Of the Factory Company to make this
PAYMENT will therefore be welcomed by all cane
deliverers as q piece of good news, the more
no because it was hardly expected. The last
campaign, as we oil know, has given poor
results 30 far as regards the quantity of sugar
produced at the Factory as everywhere
else but, as we are glad to learn, the
quality has been excellent and the prices
realized have been highly satisfactory, results
which we are sure must be due more to good
management in both the manufacturing and
che business departments of the enterprise
than to good fortune. Nevertheless, with
out having seen a statement of the results of
the recent campaign, we may doubt whether
it would have been possible to give the grow
ers anything extra, much less to treat them 30
literally as they have been treated, if the
Company had had to do it out Of this years
profit, but it will perhaps be remembered that
a fund was put aside out of the previous
years returns just with the object of en-
couraging the planters, having i'll view the
poor returns that were foreseen from this
years crop.
We must all be glad to see that the out
look for the coming year is somewhat better,
while there is, along with that, a reasonable
prospect that fair prices will rule in the su-
gar market for some time to come.
Our correspondent 'Veritas' concludes
his letter published this morning with the
question addressed to US: What do you
say? Why, of course, we say, No. We
might call a meeting of the reverend gen
flemen" and others 10 discuss the questions
raised in the letter, but we should expect to
be, and deserve to be, in the position OF.
Chairman Secretary and audience all in one,
Ii there is any serious wish on the part of
the community to make a change in the
Sunday trading regulations WI suppose we
shall soon hear of it. For our part we re-
gard the question as one on which there is
much to be said on both sides. The Law
"a 1t stands protects the congregations in
their Sunday services. and secures quiet and
order for the greater part of the day il more
- desirable let the matter be discussed. {.