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the spirit and nobo ly was more unlike an Oriental satrap in his 

 administration. Yet we all felt the steadying effect of his control during 

 the troubled season which followed the riots in 1906 at which time I first 

 became associated with him and learned to love and respect him. 



It is some consolation to think that the Colonial Service is not 

 unfruitful in officers of his type who are proud to make the boast of the 

 great hero king, Henry V.: 



' This is the British not the 



Turkish Court 

 Not Ainurath to Amurath 



succeeds 

 But Harry Harry.' 



I have great pleasure in giving notice of my attention to propose 

 Sir Charles Thomas Cox, K.C.M.G., as an honorary member of this 

 Society. 



A letter from Mrs. Garnett was read thanking the Society for their 

 kind sympathy with her in her great loss. 



The Vice-President introduced the question " Can the Colony be 

 developed without increased taxation ? His Excellency the Governor as 

 Chairman called upon members to give their views and in response Messrs. 

 E. G. Woolford, G. Bussell Garnett, L. P. Hodge and the Hon. C. F. 

 Wieting spoke on the question. His Excellency the Governor concluded 

 with an interesting outline of the course to be taken in developing the 

 Colony and of the difficulties to be encountered. 



CHATS ABOUT GUIANA. 



November 29th, 1912. The second, entitled "Old Times" was 

 delivered to a large number of school children and some members of the 

 Society. Mr. T. A. Pope, Vice-President, occupied the chair. The 

 lecturer spoke of the difference between the conditions in town and 

 country in early times and compared them with the present. Special 

 reference was made to the sanitary arrangements, roads and drainage of 

 Stabroek and the growth of Georgetown A series of lantern slides gave 

 views at different periods commencing with native Indian villages and 

 coming down to about fifty years ago. 



February 6th, 1913. The third entitled " Ups and Downs," being 

 without lantern illustrations, did not attract such a large audieace. The 

 President, Mr. J. B. Laing, occupied the chair. The lecturer surveyed the 

 course of trade and settlement from the beginning, the rise and fall of 

 Indian trade, cotton, coffee and sugar. The prosperity of the colony had 

 been mainly due to capital and labour ; when these were deficient no 

 progress could be made. Prices naturally made differences in the profits; 

 sugar survived when the low prices of cotton and coffee put these in the 

 background. Two diagrams illustrated the "chat"; one showed the 

 districts cultivated at different times, the other three centuries of ups and 

 downs. 



