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cents each, and would be sent on by the next trip of the 
s.s. Barracouta. The letter was ordered to be taken 
for notification. 
The Hon. B. Howell Jones moved the motion standing 
in his name, laid over from the previous meeting, in 
reference to fruit shipments. He felt satisfied, judging 
from the results of experimental shipments already for- 
warded to England by the steamer Non Pared from this 
colony, and from more extensive shipments to the United 
States from Honduras, Cuba and Jamaica, that a most 
successful trade in fruit, more especially bananas, might 
be established between this colony and the States as 
well as the Mother Country. He advocated the subsi- 
dising by the Government of a special line of steamers 
between the colony and North America for the encourage- 
ment of the fruit trade, and suggested that the Society 
should correspond with the Fruit-Growers' Association 
in America and other kindred Societies elsewhere, with 
a view to developing the trade. He considered that the 
Local Government shewed great apathy in matters con- 
nefted with agriculture, and instanced the lack of interest 
taken in recent experiments on the diffusion process of 
sugar manufafture at Pin. Non Pareil. 
Mr. R. J. Kelly, in seconding the motion, mentioned 
that Major Bunker, United States Consul, had shewn 
him a letter in which a firm in the States had expressed 
a willingness to send steamers here twice a month, if 
there was a reasonable prospeft of procuring shipment 
of bananas. He had hoped that a communication on the 
subject would have been forwarded to the Society by 
Major Bunker. 
Mr. D. C. Cameron in supporting the motion, men- 
