PAGE TWO THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2) 1921 Interesting News from The West Indian Islands thempting ALBOA EST EER REWED owner. this?
tax on owing to state bis case RENT RECEIPT BOOKS in Spanish and English Commercial Receipt Books ALL ON SALE his birth is far preferable to number of the immigrants who Jamaica suffering abroad. We desire the returned there last month.
would be emigrant from this Colony to try to understand and The Hardware Department Narrow Escape appreciate the situation. Cuba is no El Dorado to day. Employ and Lumber Yari of George ment is problematical and even Alston Co. situated at South Cascade, July 22. few those in employment are tinding Quay, Port o! Spain, Trinidad, weeks ago a dweller in the dis great difficulty in collecting the was on Sunday 17th inst. des trict returning home from his wages due them. This difficulty troyed by fire. The damage is tied while crossing the swollen occasioned a riot at more than estimated at about 70, 000.
river on his donkey, was washed one estate recently Barbadians off the back of the animal and would therefore be, well advised Mr. Charles Brav, cocoa pro carried some distance from the to turn their faces from Cnba prietor of Sangre Grande Trini spot where he attempted to to until conditions improve. dad, committed suicide on the cross. He escaped being drownnight of the 10th ulto. after ed by urmly holding on to the The Income Tax to murder his wife.
brar ch of a rose apple tree. The donkey was not as fortunate as comments, the Herald observes substance Under the headline Notes and The deceased was a man of som and entertained its owner, for next day it was thus friends to a dance the same night found lying dead in a deep hole, ha The Debate on the Income he committed the rash act. Af neck broken, and about a mile Tax Bill on Tuesday gave us ter the entertainment was over from where it parted from its something to think of. In the and he had retired he attacked In first place we do not think the his wife with razor and revolver the rainy seasons the ti Attorney General laid it on and thinking her dead then shot swelling of the river, and the thickly as he might have. He himself. was not in any bad conditionid of the roada de pointed out that the Government financial difficulties and it is and Cascade, mean believed that cause much annoyance, loss, on the curt current year in ant on suspicion of the fidelity suffering, etc. to those who order to ease the tightness of of the wife have to travel across.
the financial situation With a Many of the inhabitants of the district who went to Cuba bave in the face we are of the opin of recent date: We understand Says the Port of Spain Gazette large deficit staring the island returned home on account of the ion the Attorney General could that Mr. Marwood. Gener depressing conditions that pre have been much more vigourous al Manager of Railways; etc, bas vail there.
pieces of land on GreeyinleySolicitor General made a motion the Secretary of State concern!
The work of surveying the than he was. For instance, the protested against the order of sold to settlers, has started been to make it impossible to the effect of which would have ing bis compulsory retirement to age limit. Further, it since the 19th inst.
collect on this year income is said, Mr Marwood declines to The Attorney General remarked consider his handing over, unJamaicans in Cuba upon this, hereupon the Solicitor less his request for full enquiry In connection with the re General promptly said That is into ths causes of the existing patriation of Jamaicans from the reason why made the mo unsatisfactory state of the Rii.
Cuba, it is understood that the tion. That was Mr. Clarkes way is heeded costs are being to a great ex opportunity tent bourne by the Cuban Gov. against the obstructionists to the Demerara ernment, who have made ar country, Mr. Wright was re rangements or are making ar freshingly plain and pointed. He rangements with a Cuban Ship told the Huse that soine means ping Company to carry out the must be devised to deal with the From an intercolonial exchange work.
deficit. If hon: members objected we glean that a Conference is To the meantime it is learnt to the Income Tax, what then. being arranged to discuss the that a local Company engaged in Money must be found to run the best ways and means for carry.
the Cuba Jamaica trade, has colony and to go on the assump. ing on horse racing on a more tendered to the Local Govern. tion that every estate owner is satisfactory and businesslike ernment to bring back our broken is all moonshine. We basis throught the West Podies.
stranded labourers.
shall wait and see the result of the first meeting will take place AT THE WORKMAN PRINTERY Over two hundred Jamaicans the response of Barbados to the at Bel Air Park, Demerara, in returned from Santiago de Cuba yesterday. large num. loan One thing we are certain October and it is hoped that out ber had to be vaccinated before Members of the House of As of the Conference will result the landing.
sembly are playing serious with formation of a West Indian Joe the Constitution of the Colony.
key Club. Delegates from Tri of age, died at the Public Hos: The Bill to Aid Jamaica nidad and Barbados will attend pital, Gorgetown, Demerara, on Invitation to Teachers Universal Trading Sugar Industry Company it is stated the 14th inst, after a short ill The Government have prompt party of elementary school WHOLESALERS AND RETAILERS ness. Mr. Woolford was one of At a meeting of the Mayor and the leading newspaper reporters ly come to the aid of the teachers from Trinidad will be Corner 14th and Streets (Old Site of Sobers Bar)
Town Council of Georgetown in British Guiana and served island sugar industry in its visiting Demerara next month Demerara, held on the inst. time and again on the respective depression, and on an an invitation extended hy have it was unanimously resolved that staffs of the Argosy and Chronicle introduced into the Teachers Association of British Orders taken and delivered in Colo and the Council should raise on loan He was also for some time ay Legislaturea Bill appropriat Guiana. They will be entertained Branch No. 1, Corner 8th Street and Hudson Lane (oppusite the sum of 200, 000 in two year sociated with Mr. GH. McLola ing 400, 000 for advance to at varions social functions, will Liberty Hall, minutes walk from Station)
instalments of 100, 000 by the lan at the Barbad vs Standard, and ly Convenient to Gatunites planters and farmers, the loans indulge in games, and will pro issue of of bonds to bear interest at on leaving this Colony entered to be a the next bably have some conferences on crop ofurst charge on Lowest prices and reasonable service in the grocery line the rate of per cent per annum into an engagement with the a first matters affecting their to be expended in Give us a trial and be convinced of the in improving proprietors charge on the land, thus lar profession. This This exchange Trinidad Water Street by laying down a Guardian. He eventually returnexisting mortgagees JNO. NEVERSON, Manager.
of of society and ideas is a very reinforced concrete foundationed to Demerara. Mr. Woolford their rights. Already pleasant feature. It is one step to with a covering of inch maca was a brilliant descriptive writer there have been applications for wards the acquirement of know damised asphalt. It is the in. and valuable news sleuth.
assistance from 28 of the 60 ledge of inter colonial conditions tention of the Council to levy a estates on the island. The Bill and will undoubtedly have a special rate to cover this expen In order to assist the sugar the met with opposition from cer beneficial influence ditu re.
tain of the elected members. minds of the teachers an inplanters in the present economic crisis the Demerara Government mainly on the ground that it was fluence wbich will be most not in the interest of the Island valuable to them in their very In connection with the ques has remitted the one per cent of to support industry tion the important duties at the of colonisation tax on sugar exports revision expense of the taxpayers.
Demerara Civil Servants sal An invoice tax on sugar still Trinidad DRINK MUSCADINE PUNCH aries, it is understood that it stands at one and a half per is proposed to make a portion of cent and the Government is the increase now enjoyed by the prepared, with the consent of Barbados Drink Muscadine Punch, a delicious and refresh officers permanent, and knock of Combined Court to make some Trinldad Attitude tothe remainder. This it is cop further concession provided that Ing beverage. Once drunken you will forget jectured, is the result of the con year both from the point of view the position at the end of the Warning to Emigrants wards Representation.
viction that the cost of living Root Beer and all other aerated drinks Writing to the West India Comwill never return to the pre war of the colony finances and of the The Government warning to mittee Circular, Mr. Edgar Tripp CALL AT THE standard.
condition the intending emigrants to Cuba is calls attention to the very serious a most timely one and we are condition of the Colony water makes such reducigar industry Colon Co operative Stores, 5th and Hudson Lane The Demerara Argosy says; only exports of sugar and rum His Excellency action effects hoping that heed will be taken supply, pointing out that al and Secure same for your Xmas Drink of it. At present the economic though more rain has fallen dur young man named Lewis Mc and since the suspension of the Kenzie, Trinidadian, was seri; tax a few days ago the reven da situation in Cuba is most alarm. ing the past four months than ously injured in an accident early ing, and the prospects of em any one can remember during the on the morning of the 9th inst.
has suffered by 21, 000.
ployment are practically nil. The corresponding period previously, and is at present a patient in barrier of language is also a ser the supply of water has been the Public Hospital The Government of British ious one for the emigrant who shut off from Port of Spain, for McKenzie who employed on Guiana are inviting applications finds himself out of work amongst four to six hours every day. The the East Coast Sea defences was for 5, 000 000 six per ceat of coming to the City. It is under Debentures to be issued at par.
land. Iri one week no fewer than ed a strong resolution on the stood that he had a tin containing The Dabentures will be for a one thousand Jamaicans return subject.
dynamite in his left hand and term of 50 years with the option ed to their country, almost poor The best Tonic in the World when he got to Anira Street op of the Government to redeem er than when they emigrated.
Several of the repatriated East posite the Moravian Church, he them at any This is no fault of theirs. It is Indian immigrants have since time after the exdue to the sudden depression in their arrival at Calcutta, scratched a match to light a cig piration of ten years from the India, on 12 the sugar market and the he had already being given. Dabentures may be in his mouth.
lity of the land owners to give Demerara and Trinidad, owing expressed a desire to return to As soon the match caught fire the dyna: 200. 8500, 1000, 2000, 2500 them employment at the same to the unpromising outlook for This elegant Tonic preparation is highly recommend mite exploded with a loud report 33000, S4000, or 5000, and in 50, attractive wages as during the ed in Debility, Nervousness, Female Weakness, days when sugar ruled the eco employment in their native land. bear interest at rate of six The Trinidad left hand being, badly burnt and bea Government nomic roost.
whilst admitting its willingness Impoverishment of the Blood, and to build up left hanging from the Wrist, per cent per annum payable halt to bave the benefits of their labor a run down constitution.
while his face and body were per yearly on the 1st, July and on We do not join those who and its readiness to find them It promotes digestion, improves the appealso badly burnt. The Rev. the 1st January. The first paysneer at the labourer for leaving employment, distinctly states of his home for the purpose of bet that the immigrants must return tite, and gives tone and energy to the whole system. ing the man cries went to his 1st July 1922 tering his position. He took a at their own expence as the rescue and conveyed him DOSE: One small Wine glass before each meal or Public Hospital in his motor car.
chance well worth while. Con. Government will take no part in to the ditions in Cuba to day do tot, the financing of passages. The times a day.
He was admitted to the institu.
Grenada however, permit expenditure British Guiana Government be tion by Dr. Delgado and was opand income to equate, and under ing less able to adopt this attierated on immediately, Grenada Export Duties.
the circumstances the labourer tude against labor, stood respon finds that suffering in the land of sible for the passages of a large Mr, EN, Woolford, 43 years the new export duties on cacao, The official Gazette publishes MULLER present the rum, and Cheir particu.
de lar a priving priority on date inabi which he placed in VIGOR TONIC JAVIER MORAN American Pharmacy.