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the colony who had many tribulations. He knew the Director 
of Public Works had great tribulations, because there was the 
Ghaguaramas scheme which militated against his own. He 
knew that the immigrants and the planters had great tribula- 
tions because a sort of still-born Ordinance had been passed 
which suited neither one nor the other (laughter). lie knew 
again that the Municipality had its tribulations, because it had 
not been able for twenty years to meet its expenditure. When 
he found so many tribulations, he thought it would be 
indiscreet to reveal the tribulations of their governor. But the 
other stroke had to come. Hast Tuesday he had a very able 
leader, a most able leader he might say, upon that Institute ; 
and what did that leader say 1 That leader said that the 
Westminster Aquarium in London was the most successful of 
its kind, although primarily instituted for the purpose of giving 
lectures on science, because male and female crowded in every 
day to see performers. He (the governor) was not a performer, 
and he did not know how he should benefit an institution in 
that way. That article went further and said that unless you 
were a German you could not think even of interesting any one 
except by amusing them. Well, he was not a German, and he 
did not know how to amuse. But the crowning feature of the 
artiole was that, according to human nature, ladies in the 
tropics wanted particularly to be amused, or they would not 
come, and that was the reason why the Institute did not 
succeed. Well he must say that this staggered him to such an 
extent, that he thought he would not give a lecture, at the 
Institute again, or at all events begin. But it struck him 
afterwards that perhaps after all even the writer of that able 
article might he mistaken, because ladies in this Colony, as he 
knew from the mouth of the Principal of the Royal ollege, 
Wanted to compete with men in regard to the acquisition of 
scientific knowledge, and therefore he desired to see in the 
future, in that hail as many ladies as men listening to the 
interesting subjects which had been so carefully selected for 
their information. Well, it then remained for him to find out 
some particular subject. Now, the companions of the Governor 
were the Blue Books and the Census. They might find these 
very dry companions, hut they are not dry. He remembered 
Trinidad had a motto, namely, “ Unity.” He remembered that 
iu the Christian line Trinidad did mean “unity;’ and he 
remembered that if the colony' had progressed in the past and 
was progressing, if the colony could be favourably compared, if 
this colony had a future before it, that was a trinity of hopes 
that might form the subject of the few words he wished to 
address to them. In those Blue Books, which were held out to 
