PAGE TWO THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1924 Interesting News from The West Indian Islands JAMAICA.
the institution was a labour of love, and it is a matter for regret that it has been found!
necessary to close it down at Improvement Noticed the present time.
IF YOU WANT TO BE Lucky, Happy and Well the following day for burial. BARBADOS It is supposed that the child climbed up the tree to pick gun.
vas and whilst doing so she lost Actions Filed Against her grip and tell. While she was tumbling down ber Decklet Railway Board.
booked on to one of the small TELL YOUR SECRETS TO THE but strong branches and in tbat Says the HERALD of recent way lit le Jankey neck was date: Arising out of the railway RIGHT MAN broken. When her dead body accident at Harrow siding dur.
was taken down her distressed ing the night of June 9th actions parents believing that the child have been filed in the Court of HAPPY IN FRIENDSHIP, BUSINESS, ETC. was still alive took it to their Common Pleas against the Barhome and tried in vain to resus. bados Government Railway by Love Appeals in All Forms citate it.
Mr. John Fizgerald Austin, Jeweller of Swan Street and his All kinds of highly appreciated Roots and Herbs British Consulate Notice. wife, Mrs. Helen Austin, in which damages are claimed in BUSINESS DONE BY MAIL ONLY the sum of 1000 each. Mr.
CASH OR CREDIT The Acting British Consul at Keith Walcott, barrister at law, Colon would be glad of informa the firm of Hutchinson Will.
instructed by Mr. Hutchinson of Will Credit You, It Matters Not Where You Live tion as to the presert whereabouts iams, solicitors, will appear for of one Matilda Collymore, native of Trinidad the plaintiffs.
Money refunded it No letters answered dissatisfied with urless 10 is en merchandise within Union Pentecostal Assembly British Union Oil Co. Ltd, closed.
15 days after receipt.
25 CALIDONIA ROAD COLOM Gospel Meetings Sunday 11 D. ALEXANDER The biggest rumour of the sod 30 Sunday School p. Monday 30 pm, Tuesday 30 one. It is that the British Union present week has been a pleasant 99 Downing Street.
Brooklyn, Thursday 39 m.
Oil Company, Ltd. is, in a few Elder GREENEDGE Pastor, weeks, to recommence its activities in the colony. To what extent we know not, but to any extent would be a matter of SOMOSSE OSMOSISSoses appreciation. The hundreds who have been out of work since this mammoth organization closed its doors, would surely welcome the resumption of its industry, and we who have deep sympathy for these people know what a great boon it would be to them once more to get into the stride of active labour. May the rumour develop into a substan.
tial fact. this year.
OUR CONTEST Has met with the Biggest SUCCESS INCREASE IN EXPORIS OF SOME Public Health Campaign.
OF ISLAND PRODUGTS TO FOREIGN MARKETS.
The GLEANER of the 22nd ulto states that His Worship The HERALD says it is pleasing on, E, has taken steps to the Mayor, Hon. Simpto note that there has been a carry further the campaigni slight in provement to the 1s started with Health Week which land exports. The tigores re was so successful. He has writ.
cently compiled for the nine ten asking permission for the months ending September 30th not compare very unfavorably lic school room in North Stree: use of St. Anne Roman Cathowith those for the corresponding and of St Alban Anglican period of last year.
schoolroon in Smith Village, Lo the case of bananas 9, 481, 800 for the purpose of holding health stems were shipped as against metiocs on dates that will be 10, 251, 400 for the nine montas ac ranged. Meetings for children endiog September of last year will be held in the afternoon and Whilst there has not been a grown ups will be invited to very beavy drop in the number attend in the evening. Promiof stems shipped, the price that bent medical men will give prevailed this year is very much lectures, and lantern slides will lest than the price obtained last be used for illustrations, Counyear.
cillor Bain Alves will be There has been a drop in closely associated with the oranges by nearly 100 per cent novement.
however. This is pat down to These will be the first of a the late crop caused by the series of health meetings it is drought. For the nine months intended to hold in various cennding September last year, tres throughout the Corporate 27, 700 boxes were shipped as Area of kingston and St.
against 14, 300 for the same Andrew period of this There has also been a drop in cocoal uts and co siderable TRINIDAD cline under the head of coffee. falling off is also noticeable so far as sugar is concerned. In New Chief Justice.
1923 for the nine months ending September 22, 500 tons were ex ported, as against 20, 000 tone SIR STANLEY FISHER this year.
APPOINTED.
SOME IMPROVEMENTS.
It is pleasing to note that there has been an improvement the 11th ulto Says:The WEEKLY GUARDIAN of in cocoa, dye wood. ad rom far as the last tied item It is officially announced that is concerned, 551 200 gallon Sir Stanley Fisher, Oxon. were shipp. as against 408, 800 Chief Justice of Cyrus, has been of last year.
Chief Justice of Shipments o! e coa totalled Trinidad in succession to Sir.
46 200 cwts. ay against 40 400 Alfred Van Lacie Smith, Kt, CWL. last year.
Sic Sydney Nettleton, Chief The island exportad 22 700 Justice of the Baba mas baving the offer on tons of dyewods, as agaisnt declined 15 630 tons for the nine months recommendation of his medical ad viser not to undertake further ending September of last year.
work in the tropics, announceINCOME TAX RECEIPTS. ment of which was made in the It is reported that the Govern TRINIDAD GUARDIAN on ment has fallen short of its es September titate by the sum of 15, 000. 000, and it is feared that there will be Sir Stanley Fisher, who has further falling on been Chief Justice of Cyrus Income Tax receipts are con Mr. George Henry Kaapp Fisher on since 1919, is the son of the late It is known that there are Westminster and Braseuose several cases where people are College, Oxford, where he grad.
unable to meet their obligations uated in Law with an under this bead, but through the degree. He was called to the tactfulness displayed by the Bar in 1890 and became PresiSupervisor of Revenue and the dent of the District Court Acting Collector of Taxes for Kyrenia, Cyrus, in 1902. Nine Kingston, the receipts are much years after he was appointed better than would have been Paisne Judge of the Supreme otherwise, as the tax payers are Jourt of the Colony and was doing their best under the cir promoted to the Chiet Juscunstances.
ticeship in 1922.
He married Susan Duvetoa, CLOSES INSTITUTION daughter of the late General William Maxwell, Belmont Orphanago, which The salary of the Chief Justice proved Valuable Traising of Cyrus is 500 and that attached to the ottice in Trinidad Centre, Ceases Operations.
is 914.
SMOKERS OF Results of the Intermediate Examination for the A. degree at Durham held in July last at Codrington College were received by recent mail. They sbowed that Mr. Chenery (Classics) obtained first class honours and Mr.
Prescod third class.
anpointed Strollers Invest your money in a good cigarette and Prosper the The Bridgetown Motor Bus Co. discontinued its street service from Monday last. We are cot in a position to state wbetber the company will again competa for public patronage.
TWO PRIZES EVERY WEEK 150. 00 and 50. 00 80 far as Ballot Box at Jockey Club Office only Edwin Herbert, masician, of New Orleans, collapsed while standing in a shop at Baxters Road on Saturday morning last, and died within half an hour.
Al an inquest beld over his body later in the day a jury, acting upon medical testimony from Dr.
JG Williams, returned verdiet of death from heart failure.
EDUARDO VALENCIA Plaza Santa Ana, Sole Agent.
ser oosiege COSSE scesses WHY NOT?
sokoyees OBCSEXS Rap Dr. Gems BLOOD ELIXIR For strengthening the BLOOD Under the above caption the following appears in the HERALDOur cricket fathers might well give encouragement to Jamaica to send a team to Barbados towards the year end.
The Isle of Springs has been contemplating such an adventure for sometime, and the created by the abandonment ot. cc. Tour to these parts may well be alled by such an enterprise. The next intercolonial tournament is expected to come off at Trinidad in Febuary or March next, now that the MOC tour is off, and both funds and form for our visit to Trintdad might be gained if Jamaica comes. In the interests of the game and a better understanding interco lootally the visit would be Valuable.
the After several years of usefu Child Tragic Death ness, it has been decided to close down the Belmont Orphange at Stony Hill, which was UD HANGED BY NECKLET der the supervision of Miss IN TREE Clare Nattall.
The good that has been accomplished by Miss Nutell and her On Saturday morning last at assistants is too well kaown to Cane Farm Village, Arouca, a require any praise from this bright little eight year old East journal. The institution was Indian girl named Jackey, the started for the main abj ct of daughter of one Gabadhana assisting poor children, but ow canfarmer was found dead hanging to certaia circumstances ing in a guara tree. Her dead that have arisen, it has been body, was suspended from a found expedience to ese opera snall branch by means of a tions. The colgwernment con large silver bracelet (or basalee)
tributes a small grant towards which she was wearing around its up keep, whilst the Church her neck.
of England also assisted finan the Police at Arouca on SaturThe matter was reported to cially Time and again, the good work Police Constable Pierre was desday morning and immediately that was being iccalcated in the watched to the scene and a report candid exhibits of baskets, cated to Dr. Milne, the Acting was observed in the of the occurrence was communibats, and starches that were of the district, sent at displays in the various ordered the removal of the body who parts of the island.
to the Tacarigua District Hospimiddle class home has been mortem examination was held on Jt is knows that many a tal mortuary where post adorned with a girl who had the body. The child neck bone received her training at this was there discovered to be institution.
broken. The body was handed The work Miss Nattall did for oyer to the parents on Sunday, Recommended for Removing the Humors of Scrofulous Diseases, Pimples, Boils, Blotches, Tetters. Useful in Chronic and Syphilitic Rheumatism, Mercurial Affections and Diseases caused by Impurities of the Blood.
An Alterative recommended for purify.
ing and enriching the BLOOD.
Postal Statistics, For Sale at all Drug Stores And in Large Quantities by JAVIER MORAN. American Pharmacy AGENT The Expenditures on the Post Ore Department last year was 11, 135 and the Revenue 12, 229.
42, 006 parcels were received during the year, this being an increase of 8, 180 on the previous year. The total value of postage stamps sold was 10, 810 and of revenue stamps 8, 322. Money orders received from abroad were divided up as follows: From British Colonies 8, 992; from the United Kindom 1, 100: 36, 696: Canal Zooe 4, 546; and Canada 2, 370. Continued on page 7)
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