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“...Chapter II MORE GENERAL INFORMATION Steamship Routes : Outfit: The Laundry : Passports : The Voyage : The Time : Tables of Distances : The Customs : Books : Telegraphic Communication : Postal Services: Population: Religion: Freemasonry: Language. STEAMSHIP ROUTES. A list of Steamship Com- panies whose steamers touch at West Indian ports will be found in Appendix I. The facilities for reaching the West Indies, whether from the United Kingdom, Europe, Canada, the United States, or South America, are good, and there are more or less frequent oppor- tunities for getting from island to island by steamer, sloop, or schooner. Unless compelled to do so by the stress of circumstances, tourists will do well to avoid the two last-named means of communication, which are uncertain, and often involve considerable discomfort. As a general rule, the only sleeping accommodation on such vessels is in what is called a “ dog hutch,” a sort of elongated chicken-coop chained to the deck, and generally infested...”
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“...S., and Bermuda (mark messages “ via Bermuda The general rate per word between most of the British West Indian islands or British Guiana and the United Kingdom is 2S. 2d. per Word, or is. id. per word for “ deferred ” messages. Week-end telegrams of 20 words or less can be sent for Iis. 8d., and 7d. for each word in excess of 20. The rate for messages between the British West Indies or British Guiana and Canada or the United States is from is. 1 \d. to 2S. per word, with half rates deferred. POSTAL SERVICES. There is frequent mail com- munication between the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States and the West Indies. From England, since the suspension of the contract mail service in 1915, mails have been despatched by the steamers of the Harrison Line, Elders and Fyffes Ltd., and the French and Dutch lines ; also via Canada and the United States, and to Jamaica by the vessels of Messrs. Elders and Fyffes. From Canada mails are despatched fortnightly by the steamers of the Royal Mail...”
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“...the case of the American West Indies being advised through I New York and paid in dollars and cents at the current rate of I exchange. The poundage fees range from 6d. for sums not J exceeding £1 to 10s. 9d. for sums over ^39 but not exceeding £40. 'jThe limit transmissible is £40. Orders must be taken out a Tull day before the departure of the mail. When, however, application is made too late, the advice can be telegraphed for t is., with supplementary fee of 6d. for each order. Postal Orders. British Postal Orders are now issued and paid fin Barbados, British Guiana, British Honduras, Grenada, St. j Vincent, St. Lucia, Jamaica, Tobago, Trinidad, the Leeward Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands. The poundage varies I from id. for an order for 6d. to 2d. for one for 21s. POPULATION. The population of the West Indies, I taking them as a whole, is of a very cosmopolitan I character, including as it does Negroes, East Indians, I Chinese, Corsicans, and Portuguese; besides the Eng- ilish,...”
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“...202 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES The Legislative Council has concurrent legislative powers with the local legislatures on certain subjects specified in the Act, such as matters of property, mercantile, and criminal law, the law relating to status, the maintenance of a general police force and a common convict establishment, quarantine, postal and telegraph affairs," currency, audit, weights and measures, education, and the care of lunatics, all matters relating to immigration, copyright and patents, and its own constitution and procedure. Any island Legislature is, in addition, competent to declare other matters to be within the competency of the general Legislature. Any island enactment on such subjects is void if repugnant to an enactment of the general Legislature, or may at any time be repealed or altered by one. The Council meets once a year, at a place notified by proclamation (usually at St. John’s, Antigua), and no Council lasts more than three years. The session usually extends...”
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“...INDEX 486 Forto Rico [cont.) — Constitution, 334 — History of, 333 — Industries, 333 — Railway, 335, 336 — Sports, 337 Port Royal, 258, 262, 270, 275 Portsmouth, Dominica, 247, 249 Porus, 260 Postal services, 34 Post Royal, 166, Potaro River, 372, 373, 389 Powell, Governor J. E., 71 Poyntz, Captain John, 151, 152 . Poyntz, Major-General, 212 Preferential duties, 436, 437, 442 Prescot, General, 177 Prevost, Brigadier-General, 240 prince’s Building, Trinidad, 126 Prince Rupert’s Bay, 238, 247 Princes' Town, 119, 142 Providence, H.M.S., 190 Puerto Bueno, 288 Puerto Cabello, 401, 412 Puerto Colombia, 400, 402, 410 Puerto Plata, 366, 368,369, 370 Punta Gorda, 395 Puruni River, 388 Putareng Creek, 373 Pym, John, 394 Queen’s Park, Barbados, 87 — Grenada, 162 — Trinidad, 126, 127 Queen’s Royal College, Trini- dad, 126, 127 Queen’s Staircase, 72 “ Queen Victoria’s Pumps," 93 Quelch, Mr. J. J„ 392 Quinam Bhy, Trinidad, 114 Rabacca River, 184 Ragged Island, 63, 65 Ragged Point, 98 Raleigh, Sir Walter...”