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Itice which JAMAICA The police got wind about the alleged doings of these men at their haunt near Linstead surprised and After careful Immigration to arrested them.
search, the missing parts of the dead woman body were found IMPORTANT CABLES HAVE BEEN burid in their yard. sight of relief has gone up from RECEIVED THIS WELK BY the entire community that the LOCAL SHIPPING OFFICES, police have been successful SO far in their endeavours.
The HERALD of the 14th inst. During the preseat week BARBADOS cables of an important nature relating to the decision of the to cur tail emigration of West Indians Emigration to Britinto America have been passing between loral shipping offices ish Guiana.
and their head offices in New CHANCE FOR BARBADIANS From what can be gathered it is stated that the number of West Indians who will be allowed in The Barbados Herald st: tes that Ameries in future will be limited in consequence of an advertisement to per cent of a census that was by the Demerara Governmnt taken in America in the year calling for labourers for agricultural 1890.
work in that colony a represen An important point has not yet tative of that paper was invited been cleared up, however, as to and paid a visit to the office of the It this. quantity, Emigration agent in Marhill St.
cannot be definitely ascertained whether the Mr. Cook and was shown quantity is per cent of the West round and the whole business Indians who were residents in the explained to by Mr. Langivini the States in the year above mentioncapable and energetic assistant ed or per cent of Jamaicans From the form of contract we only.
learn that the British Guiana Government undertakes This new law comes into effect to, transpast few days several intending who is medically fit and willing to on the ist prox. and during the port to that Colony free of cost any labourer with his wife and children passengers to America have been work experiencing much difficulty in work in the Sugar Estates The getting their passports visaed. It contract is for one year and is asserted that several of such during that time the labourer is provided with accomodation free intending passengers that nothing definite in this direc attendance and mediene and cerwere told of rent; he also gets free medical tion could be done for them at the tain agricultural tools. The wages present juucture, range fron 72 cents to a dollar a We also learn that whatever will day and it is claimed that a man be the quota of immigrants to be can help himself by raising his allowed entry in America, 50 per go it or pig or poultry. The cost cent of that quota will be reserved of foodstuff is about the same as for relatives of aliens who have is in Barbados and in some cases been naturalized in the United lower, so that an industrious man States, and for skilled agri during the year may be able to culturists.
useful snir of money, At the expiration of twelve months the Government pays a bonus to Ghastly Murder al labourers who have worked steadily In the case of a man and wife THE SAD AND TRAGIC END 12 each.
TO WHICH LEAH MALCOLM In the case of any other coup!
OF BOG WALK CAME. 10 Fach.
In the case of a single person The Bog Walk correspondent of each providing that such a earned in wages the Jamaica Herald writing to that person has paper states that a murder ghastly during the twelve months for a 100, for there on Tuesday of this week. The a female, not less than 869 victim of the outrage is one Leah The health conditions are not Malcolm. Her body, discovered knowo by us, but we think in about 24 hours ofter her death, certain respects, bodied presented a spetacle which made labourers who are not regularly the onlookers shudder. Her head employed ought to find British had been, to all apparance, cut eut Guiana, an advantageous field.
and then wrenched off the body; Colony, and in case of bad treat In the first place it is a British her thumb and great ties removed; and her body fearfully plain Were ment, there is somebody to com.
hacked.
to, there not the What aided the murderer in the there is in uba.
carrying out and covering up of If British Guiana, can manage this act of his was the remoteness to treat her emigrants well, she of the dwelling of the unfortunate will be able to count on a steady woman from the houses of other stream of Barbadians, who will people. Her home is situated in the do her credit in the building up valley between the districts of Lime of an industrious, resourreful and Hall and Brown Wood apart and intelligent peasantry.
from all human intercourse.
Jasper Grant, who was living NEW CABLE STATION along with the unfortunate women, has been arrested and accused of the crime, but as Grant has the Ship Arrives With Material.
reputation of being one of the quiet est most docile men in this In connection with the cable it is generally blieved that system which the British Governhe is guiltless. The police are still ment is establishing throughout making investigations and it is the West Indies as part of the Brit.
hoped that not a straw will be left ish All Red Cable Route for linkunturned until the wicked perpe ing up the Empire, the Cable ship trator of such a foul deed be arrivd Barbados to earth.
with several tons FURTHER NEWS for the local Messrs, Stemens Bros.
Bog Walk, Thursday night. Ltd. of Woolwich, London, The mystery of the horible murder have been awarded the contract of Leah Malcolm has been some for the erection of the station, and what cleared up.
of the cables, and the arrived that the police have arrest Farady is the ship to be used for ed two men called the Neill brot the marine work. Mr. Lack and hers and one Christopher Fletcher in connection with the crime. From London Post Office, were Bordeaux, engineers of the what can that the Neill brothers can be gathered it appears board. Messrs. Hanschell and Co. well known personages. Fletcher, are two have been appointed agents for the cher, ship by the owners, tain directions, so it is alleged, went will extend from Turks Island to for Barbados with spurs to British demanded of him, it is further al Guiana and Trinidad, connecting leged, that to prove his sincerity with Bermuda and Halifax.
he should kill and bring portions of a female body. These instruc The WORKMAN Printery bas reFletcher is said to have moved and is now located at 93 obeyed, resulting the grievous Central Avenue, opposite the catastrophe already told, Cecilia Theatre.
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News reached Barbados by cable on the 2nd instant that, in the case of Loch vs. Blackwood Ltd. in the which Sir. Herbert Greaves ruling that the concern he wound wound up was Indian Court of Appeal, the Priv Council has reversed the unanimous decision of Sir Alfred Lucie of Trinidad, Sir Charles Major of British Guiaria and His Honour Mr. Justice Walton of Grenada, and upheld the decision of Sir Herebrt Greaves Chief Justice of Barbados with costs in both Courts.
The Globe makes the following editorial comment on the matter :The case excited great interest in Barbados, and especially when Sir Herbert had to submit to a reverse under the circumstances. To day all Barbados rejoices in the triumph Jof our Chief Justice, and for our selves we tender sincere congratulations to him and to all those concerned in the struggle for juswas so seriously threatened. Had the finding of the West Indian Cour of Appeal been allowed to prevail then the weak would always have been at the mercy of the strong.
Information has been received in Barbados of the loss of the schooner Evelyn with all on board. The Eevelyn was cut down by a steamer the name of The of the Evelyn is of special in. which has not been given. The loss terest in Barbados inasmuch as the wife of the skipper, Capt. Neilson, was before marriage a Miss Goring, a daughter of Mr. Goring, clerk in the employ of Messrs. DaCosta and Co. Mrs. Neilson was with her husband at the time of the occurrence and perished with those on board.
According to our exchanges a Commision of a sort has been engaged for the fotnight in investigating conditions in the Police Force with a wiew to determining how far there is foundation for the charge that the disaffection is due to some defect in the adminisco tration. It is understood that number of ranksmen have been summoned to evidence. It is also learned that a petition for increased pay has been presented by some members of the Force and that a number of grievances, real or imaginary, are about to be air able Blandicap of foreign language as SPANISH ENGLISH Order Books and vicinity, Secretary and Treasurer For Friendly Societies run at at of OI station.
and Co.
News has just laying CAN BE HAD AT on The Workman new mistress has arrived in the colony for Queen College.
She is Miss Jackson, Cambridge Mathematical Tripos, Trinity College, Dublin.
The Dedication of the Memorial Tablet to the memory of Combermerians who gave their lives in the War took place at the School on Wednesday, June 4th, at 30 The Globe learns in connection with the matter of the commission claimed by the Parochial Trea.
surer of St. Michael on the 25, 000 loan acquired by the Vestry for the purchase of a new organ for the Cathedral, and to settle which there was a special meeting of the St. Michael Vestry held recently, that a compromise has been reached and the matter so far settled. Continued on zege 3)
to the Neills advice They Stationery Store tions,