PAGE TWO THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1924 Interesting News from The West Indian Islands Wanted! Wanted!
BARBADOS Brief Notes.
West Indian Labourers for United Fruit Company Farm Last Sunday week Mr. Robert Fraser, youngest son of Dr.
Henry Fraser, made record swim so far as Barbados is concerned. Starting from the Engineer Pier he swam, accompanied by a boat, to Gibbs Bay in the parish of St. Peter a distance of about eleven miles.
This feat was accomplished by the young athlete in seven hours, during wbich time all the nourishment he took consisted of a bottle of tes. He never once left the water and intended swimming to Speightown, which be might bave accomplished but for the fact that it got too dark to continue swimming. On a previous occasion we learn that young Fraser swam from Porters in St. James to the Landing Steps in the Caree age. We hope soon to bear that be aspires to swim across the English Channel Minimum Wages 25 Per Day CONTRACT WORK AT SPECIAL PRICES Farm Men only wanted 50 will be sent to Bocas weekly Transportation Furnished NO MONEY ADVAN Apply to WYNTER Standard Oval Mondays hursdays at 10. a.
for God?
Over steel OD 50x65 On Saturday after two days strenuous endeavour the British Union Oil Company were sue.
cessful in launching their innb pipe, which measures 1500 feet in length. This pipe is intended to convey the oil to and for bunkering here. The launching process was watched by a large crowd of interested spec tators. The pipe was connected up on shore during the previous week in two lengths of seven hundred and eight hundred feet respectively, then placed on trolley lines and by the aid of a motor launch and the Company two oil tankers towed out5 ton Holt Cater pillar Tractor, operating a steel hawser attached with blocks to a tree on shore, assisted the launching. As the process of launching proceeded gasoline drums were attached to keep the pipe afloat until it was got into position when the drums were removed it sank except the ses end which is flxible and is buoyed in nine tatuoins for receiving or discharging, sea, whilst a tre to JAMAICA.
the quality of stock raised in the Colony had greatly improred On the other hand the management was handicapped by the The Kingston Healing fact that although certain secMission.
tions of the public criticised the istitution severely yet it was insisted tha: high prices should correspondent writing to the not be charged for stock which GLEANER says: remarkable was sold at the Farm. But incident took place at York Park quite apart from all of this Mission, Upper Orange St. on there can be no doubt about it Sunday night. meeting for that vast improvements have the conversion of children was been crrried out at the Farm held in the afternoon, at which within recent years which have several professed conversion. In made for the better caring of th the night meeting one of these, a stock, and the obtaining of little girl of about eight years of better result. bave visited the and this time in angel angajare ble a manner that and spent as long as period Farm under the condition the whole audience got convicted of there ucder the new regim.
sin, as beaten a taken.
many crying aloud for mercy, know the changes that have of cords. The Holy Ghost was with pleasure numerous improve evidently speaking through her, as ments that bave been carried in her discourse she every now and out at comparativel y mall Ost, then said: What are you doing and am no surprised ti at more scientitic and more el Oa Monday night fully fifteen ficient supervision should bave hundred people listened to this led to the Farm bang en abled samé child as she fearlessly told of to carry out its high purpse her own conversion, and pleaded, of improving the stock of the speaking with her hands as well Colony, and at the same time as her voice, for the conver demonstrating the useful lesson tion of others. At this meeting to small and large farmers toat one Dundred and twenty stock raising can be mada witnesses for Christ merched in practable business.
a circle singing some sweet choruses, and giving short, but striking would. low Evangelist Phillips asked BRITISH GUIANA the reople to no longer send in written prayers for a revival in Kingston, for that it had already come through the testimony of a Bricish Guiana little child: and one of their own children too.
Enterprise, He also announced that another letter bad been received from Mrs. Leathem, saying she would Three events of considerable sail from New York in time to be im porta nce to Britisb Guiana here on Monday coming. She have taken place during the wrote, expressing her wish to work past fortnight. We refer to the with the Light Brigade, not only appointment, at long last, of in Kingston, but throughout the Trade Commissioner for islaon, believing that any minor Colony, the launch of the differences of methods could easily steamer Amakura for the Liver.
be adjusted. If this plan is pool Georgetown route, and the adopted the invitation to Panama trial of a seaplane which is will have to be declined.
link Georgetown with the hinterland. It is a matter for regret that the Trade Com.
FRANCELLA VALFALL missioner was not appointed earlier in the year, so that Condemned to Death. Is Now he could have been at work throughout the season of the Reprieved.
British Empire Exhibition; but difficulties arose over the selecFrancəlla Walfall, who was tion of a candidate, and it will, Beatened death by Mr. we think, be agreed that it was Justice Josephs at the St. James better to wait if the delay meant Circuit Court, Montego Bay, on the selection of candidate who the 13th October, for the murder choice has now fallen on wo ild be generally acceptable.
O! her 18 months old child, Mvrtle Rowe, has been reprieved Mr CASSELS, who by His Excellency the Governor. combines with enthusiasm reAt the trial when Mr. St resources of the interior a pracSegarding the development of the John Yates represented the tical knowledge of the conditioas Crown and Mr. Colin McGregor the prisoner, the evidence of the of the coastland, which are still the mainstay of the District Medical Officer, Dr.
prosperity Mills was that the child was of the Colony. It was publicly alive when it got into the water, in the year that any suitable in Georgetown earlier where she was found. The cause candidate who might be selected of death was drowning.
to all the important post of The jury at first did not agree Trade Commissioner of British on their verdict, but on their Guiana would receive the full and second retirement, brought ungrudging support of The in the fatal verdict, with a West India Committee, and in recommendation to mercy on confirmation of that pledge, the account of the prinsoner youth.
Executive, at their monthly The woman Walfall will be meeting last week, passed a taken to the General Peniten resclation expressing their sattiary where she will serye a life is faction au MRCASSELLS sentence appointment, and offering to give him every possible assistance in carrying out the duties TRINIDAD of his position.
It is not often that a steamer is specially built for the British Government Farm Guiana trade, and consequently the launch of the Amakura, wbich drives the name 80 PAYING CONCERN. charmingly bestowed upon her by MRS. CAMERON, the wife of the Chairman of MESSRS Under the caption Odds and BOOKER BROS, MCCONNELL Ends the followirg appears in Co. LTD, ber owners, from the the WEEKLY GUARDIAN of river which bounds the northOctober 25th:west of the the Colony, may be Perhaps the most satisfactory regarded as an event of outofcial announcement made te ship is to make her first voyage standing significance. This good cently is that the Government Fard is now paying cancern, from Liverpool to Demerara in For several years the severest the interest of British Gaiana November next, and all having criticism has been levelled at at beart will wish her Godthose who were conducting the Farm because of the large dit speed, and will join with us in ference annually between the hoping that she may be the expenditure and the receipts.
40 forerunner of many more vessels It was real d that the object of the Line, and also of of the Farm was to improve the passenger and cargo and why stock of the Colony but that pot also frun service on an was done at too great loss. even more ambitious scale.
It could not be denied that al Finally there has been the though the Farm had not ac trial of the first sea plane complished all that it was ambulance ever built, which xpected to, yet as a result of owes its inception to the enterits oper. tion in several directions prise of MR. HODGKINS, Dr. Gems BLOOD ELIXIR For strengthening the BLOOD to announced IF YOU WANT TO BE Lucky, Happy and Well Recommended for Removing the Humors of Scrofulous Diseases, Pimples, Boils, Blotches, DOMINICA Tetters. Useful in Chronic and Syphilitic Rheumatism, Mercurial Affections and DisThe Flood.
eases caused by Impurities of the Blood. From the Chronicle)
An Alterative recommended for purify. As a great number of persons ing and enriching the BLOOD.
were unable to secure a copy of yesterday CHRONICLE, we reprint today the column we published about the Flood. Ed.
For Sale at all Drug Stores And in Large Quantities by CALAMITY in the shape of a flood, which could have had the JAVIER MORAN. American Pharmacy most dreadful consequences involving even the partial destruction of the town struck Roseau AGENT on Sunday at about 11 All on a sudden the river began to to overflow its banks, the water breaking the Goodwill Bridge and inundating the Streets up to a height of about four feet.
of the Real, Daylight Balata However, our galant Mr. Bully, Estates, Ltd. of British Guiana. When life is in danger, we kaow waded through to save people.
She is distine to carry any men that Mr, Bully is always on the who may be siek or meet with accidents from the forest areas exs spot.
of thinterior to Georgetown, a journey of 200 miles, which, under present conditions, may MANY small houses were flooded, TELL YOUR SECRETS TO THE take anything from ten to seven causing heavy losses to the poor teen days. This distance will, inhabitants.
Seven or eight RIGHT MAN it is believed, be covered by the houses were removed from their ambulance in two hours, and we foundations through the powerful are proud to feel that British onrush of the water.
HAPPY IN FRIENDSHIP, BUSINESS, ETC. Guiana should be the scene of lighters were smashed up and Love Appeals in All Forms the first experiment of this washed out to the sea. Up to the kind. With these developments time of writing this paragraph, we may confidently expect that heard that the police department All kinds of highly appreciated Roots and Herbs the our was informed that at Trafalgar a great mainland colony in South house has been covered up and that BUSINESS DONE BY MAIL ONLY America will bulk more largely all the inmates the (Damsel family)
in the public eye than it has numbering ten lost their life.
CASH OR CREDIT done hitherto, and it should go One of the boys, who had come to Will Credit You, It Matters Not Where You Live without saving that it will be towe to attend the Sunday our object to do all in cur power service at the Cathedral, remained to assist Mr. CASSELS in bring in town and thus escaped the Money refunded it No letters answered ing before the notice of capi fatality that befell his family.
dissatisfied with uploes 10 is en talist ber undoubted possibili.
merchandise within closed.
tipp West India Committe: Cir15 days after receipt.
cular.
Six bodies of those unfortunate ALEXANDER Rent Recept Books In Span Trafalgar on Sunday night have people who lost their life at 99 Downing Street.
Brooklyn, Y, sh and English for Sale at The been recovered and were buried on WORKMAN Printery. Continued on page 6)
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