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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...”
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