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" Geenada. — The fixed revenue for the year 1859 was £13,500, 

 raised to nearly £ 17,000, by additions accruing from taxes levied 

 under a local money bill. Of this total about £9,500, are the pro- 

 ceeds of duties on imports. In consequence of the arrival of Indian 

 labourers the duty on imported rice had risen from £297, to £517, 

 and the abolition of tonnage duties is expected to give some stimulus 

 to trade. The total value of imports was, in 1859, £124,000, and 

 of exports 36131,000. On both sides of this account some fractional 

 deductions are made for goods imported and subsequently exported. 

 "Within the last three years agriculture has made considerable pro- 

 gress and it has been ascribed to the introduction of Indian labour- 

 ers. By their industry seven large estates have been reclaimed in 

 the last three years, these having been abandoned when the negro 

 refused to work after his emancipation. They are now in a flourish- 

 ing condition. The immigrants only number 879, but their presence 

 and conduct are described as ' most telling on the Creole labourers.' 

 So well contented are the labourers that they told Governor Hincks 

 that they had no intention of returning home, but would settle in 

 the island when their term of industrial residence had expired. This 

 confirms the intelligence from Trinidad. 



" Tobago. — Of this colony nothing is reported but what is strictly 

 local. Everything is described as prosperous. In round numbers 

 the population numbers 15,000. 



"St. Vincent. — The information is very scanty. There is a 

 great want of Indian immigrants. The island is highly fertile and 

 well adapted to the sugar cane. It exports some hundred tons of 

 pozzolani, which, mixed with two-thirds of lime, produce an excellent 

 hydraulic mortar and cement for pavements. It is shipped at the 

 rate of 8s. per ton. Here grow the bread-fruit trees most luxuriant- 

 ly, as nutritious as the yam and potato. The cabbage trees are 

 gigantic, and the palms are tall and stately. Some insect blight has 

 killed the cocoa nuts. The bamboo cane is excellent. 



" St. Lucia. — The population is put at 26,000, but this estimate 

 is deemed below the actual amount. Some 1,200 Indian labourers 

 have arrived, who do not appear to be enumerated, and many persons 

 come to St. Lucia annually from other colonies, chiefly from Martin- 

 ique. The coolies are reclaiming land thrown out of cultivation. 

 Old buildings are repaired, and former activity and enterprise are 

 being renewed. 



