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There were few hotels or restaurants. Hamilton's, 

 afterwards Beckwith'S, now the Caledonian, JUDY Bas- 

 COM's, and Mrs. Bayne'S, were about the only places 

 where one could get a bed. Then there was the old Ice 

 House, a perfeft shanty, to which I often think I see the 

 two old familiar figures, Imlach and INGLIS, wending 

 their way from the Public Buildings ; Charlie Cahuac's, 

 now the Demerara Club ; and for West Coasters, Mary 

 Lynch'S in the Market, with her pepper-punch and 

 brandy. Great indeed are the changes of to-day in 

 that refpeft, — we have the Tower Hotel and others that 

 any city might be proud of; wonderful have the strides 

 been since then. Our new Markets, Law Courts, Police 

 Magistrate's Office, Town Hall, new Colonial Bank, 

 Hand-in-Hand Office, the B. G. Bank, the B. G. Mutual 

 Office, the Roman Catholic Cathedral, the English Cathe- 

 dral, Tram-Cars running through the city and suburbs, 

 where fine residences have been erected, the Botanic 

 Gardens, and I may say above all the splendid sanitary 

 improvements of the whole town, show such a wonderful 

 change compared with 1S65, that we are forced to con- 

 clude that in these strides sugar has led the way, and 

 that these changes have been but the outcome dire6lly, or 

 indirefily, of the sugar industry. 



But, Mr, Chairman, I must now proceed with my sub- 

 je6t : " The Changes in our Sugar Industry," and shall 

 commence with the improvements and changes in the 

 manufacturing department as compared with 1865. The 

 amalgamation of sugar estates, which has certainly 

 changed the aspe6t of the colony in general, rendered a 

 larger plant of machinery necessary; the bounty subsi- 

 dised beet, which up to 1883 used a large quantity of 



