... Island, and has hoisted the British flag there.—Reuter. Ayes, or Bird, Island is a small barren island in the east of the Caribbean Sea, 140 miles west of Dominica. Though it is of no strategical importance, and there is no apparent benefit to be gained ...

... after seventy years of waiting a west-country tongue got a man out of a mess and made. him a provision for life even in the Caribbean Seas. Mr. Phillpotts knows his Devon lads and lasses well, and writes of them of the countrywith love and sympathy, These ...

... Council to be discussed at the next meeting. The Royal Mail steam . packet Tagus, known in the West Indies as the Queen of the Caribbean, has established a record passage from New York to Jamaica, covering the distance in 3 days 23hr. 20min. Brighton Town Council ...

... an angry mob of women. DEVIL'S ISLAND ROMANCE. Arrest in London Recalls Escape of Prisoner from Penal Settlement in the Caribbean Sea. As being wanted for having escaped from a French penal settlement where he was serving a life term for larceny, Edward ...

... crowd were arrested for obstruction. PIECES OF EIGHT. Mysterious Treasure ships Leaving England for Cocos Island and the Caribbean Sea. The ma . gic call of buried treasure in the Pacific is just now taking out two more ships from England to engage in ...

... Undaunted by the fate of the Xema expedition, the Liverpool yacht Catherine, under Captain Small, will sail shortly for the Caribbean Sea, in search of buried pirates' treasure, £1,200,000 in value. The Catherine will be one of the smallest vessels to cross ...

... she Viould know that it is only through her own neglect, through her half-hearted, pernicious West Indian policy, that our Caribbean Empire is not in the front rank of her richest possessions to-day. The riches of the West Indies played a large part in ...

... 1 , .--r b- 1 '- 4 --.- • 90' 80',.. 70' 50' 4o* 20* On the left, bananas growing on a tree ;on the right, a map of the Caribbean Sea, showing destruction of the cables the details which have arrived 'are so far very meagre. The Island the position of ...

... voyage from the European side. The object of the quest is believed to be buried in one of the many islands which stud the Caribbean Sea. It is said that some thirty years ago a doctor named Davidson, while attending an old seaman during a voyage from Hawaii ...

... have practically no protection.—Reuter. THE HAGUE, Tuesday.—The Dutch battleship Jacob van Heemskerk will leave to-day for Caribbean waters, whither the cruiser Friesland, which is due to arrive from Norway to-day, will also most probably be sent.—Reuter ...

... took all the requisite measures in case an ultimatum should become necessary. 'To this end the Dutch naval squadron in the Caribbean Sea will be reinforced in September by the cruisers Utrecht and Holland, and arrangements will be made, if necessary, for ...

... presented by the passengers with an address. In view of the differences between Holland and Venezuela the Dutch squadron in the Caribbean Sea will be reinforced in December by the battleship De Ruijter, and in January by the cruiser Utrecht, says a yesterday's ...