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The object of this Bulletin, however, is not to reiterate the p 
of sugar, but to indicate the direction in which it would be wise and 
prudent to seek for means to alleviate the pressure of present circum- 
stances. In islands differing so widely as regards ‘soil, doake, confor- 
tion of surface, and elevation above the sea, in the number and 
me of population, and in local feeling and sympathy, it is difficult 
o generalise as regards the causes of failure in the g or of the 
Fasila measures most likely to be successful in the futur 
The spirit which now animates the people of the West pemaen as 
regards the outlook of their industries is well expressed in a memori 
forwarded to the Secretary of State m the people of St. Basia, dated 
soi April 1886. This memorial sta 
“ That since the settlement. of ibe tulad (of St. Lucia) ent inhabi- 
tants have devoted their energies to the cultivation of the sugar-cane 
vekar exclusively; the sugar industry having been found, with 
“ occasional fluctuations, fairly remunerative over an average of 
een 
“That causes have lately come into operation, the effect of which 
has been to reduce the price of the principal product of the Colony 
“ below the cost of production, and although the imminence of the 
danger which threatened them roused the people to make efforts by 
the importation of th att, and the most 
approved scientific appliances for the economy of labour a secure 
“ the greatest outcome from sugar-cane ; still but a small section of 
p 
situated as ours a 
. . . . . . . . . . E 
“The rebels S of St. Lucia are now eager to take up other economic 
plants, which are as yet unaffected by the causes which have brought 
about the depression in the cane industry, and the cultivation of 
which offers a reasonable prospect of profit. 
. . . . . bs . . . . 
“ It is our firm persuasion, therefore, that in the _ critical position 
of om nt neipal product of the island, and in the uncertainty which 
surrounds the future of the su r tidus „itis a matter of li 
here are at present in ‘the West Indies Maire» British Guiana 
on the mainland of South America) six Re a rtant Co 
Jamaica, British Honduras, the Leew Islands, with headquarters 
at Antigua, Barbados, the Windward Tala, with he eadquarters at 
Grenada, and Trinidad. These six Colonies have an aggregate area 
of 15,143 coset miles, and a population in 1881 of 1,197,355. 

