PAGE TWO THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1925 Interesting News from The West Indian Islands way.
visi. Two sub Committees have bet appointed one to arrange the tixtures and the other to entertain the visitors.
Tennis players are all looking forwa to the games which should prove very interesting.
YOU GET VALUE For Your Money WHEN YOU BUY AT THE BRANCH STORE OF THE AMERICAN BAZAAR Situated at Central Avenue and Corner Street Under the caption Odds and Ende the same paper says:The tinance of the City Corporation are in a good way and in addition to the programme of o?
construction works proposed for next year, they might well consider additional lights for severa.
districts which are badly in need of them. St. Clair, requires at least six more lights, particu.
larly in the area which recently saw an epidemie of burglaries.
Belmont also requires attention, This district abounds with dark lanes and alleys and about zen lights would not be too much to relieve the situation. he convenience to the residents would be well worth the extra expenditure apart from limiting the activities of thieves.
special Miss FOOTWEAR was FOR Women Misses Gentlemen. Buy at The Branch Store of The AMERICAN BAZAAR and BE SATISFIED causing 80 The bandling of mails since the reorganization of the Post Office by the Postmaster General hardly leaves much to complain about in these days. As a result of the active leadership and personal supervision of the Postmaster General.
there is absolutely no delay in handling the largest batch of mails.
Consigaments of mails which in former days took bours and even days to handle, are now sorted and put on the road with commendable despatch. The Postmaster Ries down to the whart to see that there is no delay in getting th bags to the office and Once there be even in the sorting. Business men are thus facilitated in their correspondence and there is general praise of the lively efficency of the Postal Department.
SOMOBXSS 20. 00 SSSSSNSOWOSO ven assists was fixed at 300.
Dr. Gems BLOOD ELIXIR For strengthening the BLOOD JAMAICA. stopped by the demolishing of a few buildings that were in the Are Compensated thrown into a panic and from The was practically what we can gather there are MEMBERS OP THE POLICE FORCE many who have been rendered homeless and desolate.
GET REMUNERATION A3 RESULT OF DARLING ST. OUTBREAK TRINIDAD The HERALD learns that a number of the constabular Fatal Tooth Extraction.
who figured prominently in the recent Darling Streat riot, have been compensated by the government PATIENT VIES DURING Some of the officars, sub OPENA TILN officers and men who got their clothes torn hive been compen: sated. Over 150 has also been Twelve Days Before spent is giving speial awards Marrage.
to some seventeen of the police who tiigured in the riot. It is FROM THE WEEKLY GUARDIAN reported that recommen Elizabeth dations have been made to His popular assistant in the mploy Gomez, Majesty the King with a view of Miller Stores at Princes of showing special re condition Town died suddenly at the to some man burs of the force Hospital there ou for adroitness in trying to gurele District th motley crowl around the well and at work up to about Tuesday afternoon. Sae Darling Street ston yard on the ball hour before her death.
memorable morning of the She had been complaining month of June last year. tootbache and went down to the hospital to have the offending Serious Allegation In awth removed, the doctor being away Mr.
nes the Dispenser Steward decided Kingston Case.
to extract the toon, which was mueb pain and What the Police alleged is succeeded in extractiog it.
Miss Gomez was still suffering scheme a incindiarisin was enacted in the city nar mid but Mr. Taylor a vided her to from another decaying tooth night on Tuesday and Monday.
leave that one to be treated by a Henry Lim Chosa chinaman dentist as he thought it could who did business at the corner be saved, but sbe persisted aod of Barry Street and Rosemary begged bim to his Lane is awaiting to take it out.
trial.
While he was attempting to Choy was taken before His remove it she fainted. Mr.
Hon. Mr. Robinson in th Taylor turned to get restoratives Kingan RM. Court yesterday and called nurse Connelly to morning and remanded. Bail assist him but as soon as she was laid upon a bed nearby she passed away in the fainting fit.
It was Dear one o clock on Wednesday morning that the The police took charge of the fire brigade was callei out, but body which was viewed by Dr.
on arrival at the scene tae tire Lasalle, who was on a put out, and that, before it bad isit to the District and later reached alarming proportions.
doctors Hamel Sunith, From what can be gathered, of Indian Walk and Mababir, a constables. spoke issuing of Princes Town, bed from the liquor premises of post mortem examinaiton and Choy, and the former prompuy allowed the removal of the body up the brigade. Choy for burial.
away from the premises Interviewed by our represenwhen the blaze was discovered tive, Mr. Taylor said he did not On the pulica entering the use any form of anaesthetic premises, they found that a while extracting the teeth.
hole had been bored in the Later in the day the doctors ceiling and through this a rope forwarded part of the remains fuse was attached to a tip of to the Government Analyist for kerosine oil above with four examination. Much sympathy barrels of grass on the lower is felt for the relatives and for floor. The oil fed the fuse. In Mr. Arthur Leiba, Clerk at the addition, there were lighted Warden Office and ex champion Candles and bad not the fire cyclist of the Colony, to whom been discovered at an early Miss Gomez was to have been stage, the results would have married on Tuesday, December been disastrous.
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All the fire setting apparatus was taken charge of by the police and will in the course) Intercolonial Tennis.
of time be presented in the Court.
The building is understood BARBADOS TEAM COMING is the properity of Gabriel NEXT MONTH.
Alexander and was insured in the Lancashire Insurance Com pany of which Mr. Raphael Writing under the above headBonitto is the local Agen. The line, on the 27th December last, stock carried insurance to the the Weekly Guardian says:tune of 500 in the Licensees News from the Barbados Insurance Company of which Tennis Committee received by Mc. Reginald Malbado is the the Chan, Pereyra, square tara on of local.
Tranquillity Tennis Club, tells of our neigbbours having finally decided to Fire at Spaldings visit the Tranquillity Club here, arriving by the Ormonde on 17th January next and leavDISASTROUS BLAZE SWEPT ing on the 27th by Dutch THROUGH LITTLE TOWN steamer The Barbados team will consist of the following ON THURSDAY NIGHT ladies and gentlemen :News reached Kingston yes Wilson, Messrs. M. Wilson Miss Kitty Haynes, Mrs.
terday to the effect that the (Capt. Eric Saunders, V, Smith, town of Spaldings in Clarendon Abrams and Boyce was practically wiped out by Drs. Johnson and E disastrous tire which started Skeete.
there on Thursday night.
of the ladies, Miss Haynes is representative the Herald of the only player who has already wbo got in conversation with a played in the Inter Island com gentleman pas, ed through that petition, while of the gentlemen place yesteruay, was told that there are Mr. Eric Saunders, the scene was awiul and dismal Mr. Abrams, the to behold former having played in the From what can be gather ad, mixed doubles this year, in Ba.
the fire started in a chidama a shop. This chinaman was outdon and the latter in the men (partnered by Mr. Ti of the town and up to some time Bayce, now of Trinidad) on the yesterday morning had not last visit bere in 1923.
returned. The flames spread rapidly and reached the Trinidad this year in Barbados Mr. Wilson also played against business premises one Mr. in the mixed doubles.
McCaulay. He had beeu ent rely burnt out. The tire continued Tranquillity are bard at work in its course and could only be practising and are keen on the called was the The Bar and public have welcomed a new Chief Justice in Sir Stanley Fisher, who comes to the Colony with a long and dis.
tinguished career on the Bench, while they have bade goodbye to Mr. Justice Clark, whose brief term on the Bench has been an eminently successful one.
In the bands of Sir Standley Fisher it is certain au that the great traditions of the highest legal office in the Colony added lustre and that he will uphold the high principles of British Justice.
During his acting appointment Mr. Justice Clark heard several actions involving facts and law of much importance and his learned decision bave induced the hope that in the near future be will return to the Bench in a permanent ca acity.
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KEEN CONTEST FOR STABROEK WARD.
Mr. Nelson Cannon Defeated JOB PRINTING Of every description DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DESPATCH Wight According to the Demerara Argosy the election on Saturday last, in connection with the return of a representative to the Georgetown Town Council for Stabroek Ward resulted in the return of Mr. Percy the present holder of the office, the Hon. Nelson Cannon, Mayor, being defeated by sixteen votes.
This proved the most keenly contested of the elections. There are 137 persons registered to vote in this ward of this num.
ber 116 went to the polls.
Polling closed at p. mi and twenty minutes later, Mr.
Woolford, officer, returning declared the results of the election as follows:Mr. Percy Wight 65 Mr. Nelson Cannon 49 AT THE WORKMAN PRINTERY and then Advertise in the Workman IT PAYS Majority 16 There were two spoiled votes.
The results were received with wild enthusiasm by the supportors of the successful candidate. regrettable feature of the proceedings was a savage dis(Continued on page 7)