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... WEST INDIES. The intelligence the Avon, which arrived on Wednesday, is very unsatisfactory. The Jamaica Times, in its summary for the packet, says, “We regret to announce that the month of June has passed over without affording anything like an adequate ...

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... WEST INDIES. State the Islands. —The arrival of the mail has not put in possession of very satisfactory advices upon the subject of the weather, which, with the labour question, are the most important features of nows. The drought in many parts of Jamaica ...

Published: Thursday 16 September 1847
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 192 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... WEST INDIES. The papers received Mail sietraer at Southampton on Monday contain political new* ol'importance. The weather wa* tine ; but in certain localities rum was scuch required for the young canes. The islands generally were healthy. The monotony ...

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... WEST INDIES. Tie latest advices from Cyprus to the appearance of locusts in tlult Wand. Consideraule bands of tbese destructive insects were creating great damage ■among the crops. This visitation in the early season ia much deplored. The accounts from ...

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... WEST INDIES. The advices brought by the Severn, which arrived at Southampton on Friday, do not contain any intelligence of importance. The want of rain is still much felt in most of the islands, which rendered the prospect of next year’s crop uncertain ...

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... WEST INDIES. According to the advices by the West India mail, which left Jamaica the 2()th of March, the admission of sugar in this country for distilling purposes, and the alteration of the rum-duties, has proved very agreeable to thecolonists. The Governor ...

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... WEST INDIES. The accounts of the crops brought by the mail on the Bth instant are most favourable. The produce was expected to be one-third greater than last year. In Porto Rico and St. Thomas’s, however, a long continuance of dry weather had been experienced ...

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... WEST INDIES. A lerrible hurricane swept the island of Tobago on the night of the 11th October, and raged for three hours. Nearly 500 houses were razed; the crops were in great part if not wholly destroyed, as well as vast quantities of corn, plantains ...

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... WEST INDIES. By the West India steamer Clyde, there are advices from Jamaica the 23d of April. The accounts from all the islands describe the crops as unusually forward, abundant. and healthy. The news brought by the Indian mail is of the 14 of April ...

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... WEST INDIES. By the West India Mail arrived at Southampton on Monday, we learn that Sir Charles Grey had arrived in the Hermes, and taken upon himself the Government ot Jamaica, and it is said, would become very popular. 1m Jamaica, and all the British ...

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... WEST INDIES The Trent steamer, arrived at Southampton on Sunday, reports that the island of St. Michael's had revolted, and endeavoured to seduce the other islands from their allegiance to the Queen of Portugal, hut without success. The accounts are very ...

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... WEST INDIES. The Crops.—By the arrival of the monthly steamer learn that the weather in the islands had generally continued favourable, and that the prospect of the sugar crop had undergone no change for the worse. MEXICO. State of Affairs.—By the arrival ...

Published: Thursday 18 March 1847
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 274 | Page: 2 | Tags: none