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St. Christopher, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Sombrero, Tobago, Trinidad, Virgin Islands. See West Indies.

WEST INDIES.

The British West Indian jiossessions fall into six groups, which are noticed separately, while the statistical results are exhibited in general tables for convenience of comparison. The groups are— (1) Bahamas, (2) Barbados, (3) Jamaica with Turks Islands, (4) Leeward Islands, (.^) Trinidad with Tobago, (6) Windward Islands.

BAHAMAS.

Governor. — George B. Hnddon-Smith, C.M.G. (2,000Z.), assisted by an Executive Council of 9, a Legislative Council of 9, and a representative Assembly of 29 members, electors requiring to have a small property qualilication.

A group of twenty inhabited and many uninhabited islands and rocks otr the S.E. coast of Florida.

Area, 4,403 square miles. Principal islands — New Providence, (pop, census 1911, 13,554, containing capital Nassau), Abaco (4,463), Harbour Island (1,031), Grand Bahama (1,824), St. Salvador (5,072), Long Island (4,150), Mayaguana (358), Eleuthera (6,533), Exuma (3,465), Watling's Island (617), Acklin's Island (1,733). Crooked Island (1,541), Great Inagua (1,343), Andros Island (7,545). Total population in 1911.55,944 (24,975 males, 30,969 females). Births in 1911, 1,905; deaths, 1,215. There were in 1911 48 Government schools with 6,584 pupils, averao-e attendance, 5,351 ; and 19 aided schools with 1,492 enrolled pupils and average attendance of 996 pupils; Government grant., 6.000Z. ; 33 Church of England schools with 1,625 enrolled pupils; 11 private schools with 222 enrolled pupils ; 4 Roman Catholic, with 531 enrolled pupils, and Wesleyan Schools with 53 enrolled pupils. There are 5 private secondary schools, 167 pupils. In 1911, 1,918 persons were convicted summarily, and 26 in superior courts. Police force, Junnar}^, 1912, was 80, Sponge and turtle fisheries are carried on ; and shells, pearls, and ambergris are also obtained. Fruit culture is on the increase, pineap])les, oranges, and tomatoes being exported. The total land granted in the colony amounts (1911) to 365,203 acres, leaving 2, 434,957 acres ungranted. Pineapple canning factories, sisal factories, and lumber factories are prosperous. Sisal is the mainstay of the Colony. In 1909 25,000 acres were pla7ited with sisal plants.

In 1911-12 in the iuter-island service^ 153,016 letters and post-cards and 32,571 newspapers and iiooks were transmitted ; in the foreign service, 491,545 letters and post-cards and 114,101 newspapers and books were received and dispatched. In 1911-12, 3,197 telegraph messages pa.ssed over the cable. There are 275 telephone stations in Nassau and .suburbs,