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“...BRITISH GUIANA
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daily, Sundays excepted, by Sprostons’ steamers,
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Steamers.
gaily,
ana Rockstone on the Essequebo; and the small
steamers of Sprostons Ltd. visit many other points Local
of interest in the colony, plying:—
(1) From Georgetown to Suddie. Essequebo,
calling at Leguan, Wakenaam and Aurora daily,
and returning on the same day.
(2) From Georgetown to Berbice, every Monday
and Thursday evening, returning every Tuesday
and Friday at noon.
(3) From Georgetown to Mount Everard, every
Tuesday at 12.30 p.m., returning to Georgetown on
Fridays, and calling at Morawhanna both ways. A
launch runs between Mount Everard and Arakaka
on the Barima for the purpose of carrying mails
and passengers, and towing bateaux when there
is sufficient water in the river.
(4) From Georgetown to H.M. Penal Settle-
ment, and then to Bartica Grove, every Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday at 8.30 a.m.,. returning
on Wednesday, Friday, and Monday, touching at
.if''
W...”
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“... Class.
Georgetown to Tuschen . • $1.00 $0.48
,, to Penal Settlement . 2.00 0.64
m to Bartica . . 2.00 0.64
The fares for the return journey are the same....”
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“...Brussels
Convention.
Sugar Crop.
286 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES
For over a quarter of a century an active cam-
paign was carried on against bounties, which were
condemned by statesmen of every shade of poli-
tical opinion, though none had the courage to
stamp them out by imposing a countervailing duty
on bounty-fed sugar entering our markets, or by
prohibiting it. Several conferences were held, but
all proved abortive until 1902. On 5th March in
that year, at a conference at Brussels, a convention
was signed by the principal sugar-producing Powers,
by which they agreed to abolish bounties and to
render the existence of cartels impossible by limit-
ing the difference between the customs duties and
excise duties. A penal clause in this convention
provided that the high contracting Powers should
impose a countervailing duty on, or prohibit the
importation into their territories of, sugars from
countries which granted bounties either on pro-
duction or export. Thus...”
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“..., 100
Pembroke, Earl of, 61
Penal Settlement, 87, 88
Penn, Admiral, 105
“ Pepper pot” recipe, 8
Perkins, Mr. H. J., 79
Peru, 145
Peter’s Island, 246
Peterson, Lieut., 212
Petroleum, 59, 75
Philippsburg, 271
Phosphate of alumina, 203
Phosphate of lime, 203, 247
Photography, 29
Physicians, 5
Pickford & Black Steamship Co.,
Ltd., 13, 21
Picton, General, 141
Pigeon Island, 189, 199
Pigeon Point, 152
Pimento, 103, 104, 129
Pine-apples, 203
Pinzon’s voyage, 81
Pitch Lake, 132, 148
Piton Flor, 198
Pi tons, the, 189, 200
Pitons of Carbet, the, 252
“ Placer” washing (gold), 80
Plantain Garden River, 101
Plum Point, 35
Plymouth, Montserrat, 230, 233
Plymouth, Tobago, 153
Point Galera, 152
Point Mulatre, 240
Point Petit, 152
Pointe-è.-Pierre, 137
Pointe-è-Pitre, 18, 250, 252
Pointe Michel, la, 240, 243, 245
" Poison tree,” 212
Polo. See Sports
Ponce, 279, 281
Population, 41
Port Antonio, 101, 108, no, hi,
113, 129
Port Maria, 113
Port Morant, 113
Port of...”
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