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or while travelling in a tram car, and afterwards com- 

 pleted in the store or office of an obliging friend. Is 

 this an imaginary picture ? are there not many who 

 will recognise the individuals who sat for the por- 

 trait ; if you don't know them, look well in the 

 highest seat of honour in their respective places of 

 worship and there you will be sure to find them. 



I do not for one moment mean to convey the idea 

 that the telephone is not well managed ; because it is, 

 and it, of late years, renders efficient service ; but 

 I do assert that it ought to be, as the Post Office and 

 Railway are, under government control and any pro- 

 fit made out of it — and this is considerable — would go 

 to help the revenue of the colony, and could, at a 

 cheaper rate than at present, be made more useful to 

 the general public. 



Any way it is as it is ; it as an institution which, 

 like " the letters Cadmus gave," could not now be 

 done without. 



I finish this chapter by recording the further 

 progress of the colony by the latest scientific appli- 

 ance of communication by wire by the introduction of 

 the latest known addition to telegraphic science, the 

 wireless (?) telegraph, connecting this colony with 

 Tobago on the northern side and Demerara on the 

 southern. It is probable it will, within measurable 

 distance, be connected by this means with other parts 

 of the world as well, thus bringing this colony up-to- 

 date in this respect as it is in most others, forming a 

 great contrast with the Trinidad of Then with the 

 Trinidad oiNow. . | j 



