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 2H6 THE BRITISH EMPIRE : — WEST INDIES

Montego Bay, 43 sailing vessels of 1,190 tons; St. Anna's Bay, 1 sailing vessel 20 tons; Falmouth, 11 sailing vessels of 8,135 tons ; total, 91 vessels of 11,144 tons.

Jamaica has 184^ miles of railway open of 4ft. 8^in. gauge (receipts, in year ended Mareh 31, 1912, 190,007Z. ; expenses, 97,829Z.); pas- sengers carried, 612,657. 2,180 miles ! of main roads ; 985 miles of telegraph, including railway telegraph lines ; 681 miles of telephone line ;. 18i miles of electric and 8;^ of steam tramways ; telegraph messages a9''l]-12), 192,270; receipts, 7,108Z. Letters and post-cards in 1911-12, iO, 111,283. Total receip'ts, 48,722Z. ; expenditure, 42,465Z. including telegraph revenue and expenditure.

Turks and Caicos Islands, a Dependency under the government of Jamaica, are geographically a portion of the Bahamas, of which they form the two south-eastern groups. The government is administered by a Commis- sioner, assisted by a Legislative Board of six members, four of whom are appointed by the Crown. The Governor of Jamaica has a supervising power over the local government. There are upwards of thirty small cays ; area 165^ miles. Only eight inhabited ; the largest, Grand Caicos, 20 miles long by 6 broad. Seat of government at Grand Turk, 7 miles long by 2 broad ; about 1,700 inhabitants. Population (1911 census), 5,615 (males, 2,505; females, 3,110), of whom 286 were white. Births (1911), 170 ; deaths, 94.

Education free in the Government schools; Government grant, 600/. ; 7 elementary schools ; average number on rolls, in 1911, of 931. Public library and reading-room at Grand Turk ; a weekly official ' Gazette ' containing news telegrams as given by the Cable Company,

The most important industry is salt raking. About 1, 800,000 bushels are raked annually and exported to the United States, ('anada, and West Indiaji Islands. Value exported 1911, 19,503^. Sponge and fibre industries are also carried on. The Cable station is at Grand Turk. The Dependency has invested surplus balances to the amount of 5,229Z. Savings bank deposits (1911), 2,670^., depositors, 321.

Commissioner and Acting Judge. — F. H. Watkins (salary 700Z.) ; resi- dence, Grand Turk.

Cayman Islands, attached to Jamaica, consist of Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brae. Grand Cayman, 17 miles long, 4 to 7 broad ; capital : Georgetown, population (1911), 1,446. Total population of island (191 1), 4,1-28. Little Cayman, Si- miles long, 1^ miles broad ; princii>al industry cocoanut i)lanting. Population (1911), 136. Cayman Brae, 6^ miles long and 1:^ miles wide; principal industry, cocoanut planting and turtle fishing; population (1911), 1,.300. Exports— Grand Cayman: Green turtle, thatch rope, hides, turtle shell, cattle and ponies ; Little Cayman and Cayman Brae: Cocoanuts, about 2,000,000 per annum, and turtle shell. The Government is dministered by a Commissioner ; Justices of the Peace (14) are appointed by tlie Governor of Jamaica.

The MoRANT Cays and Pedro Cays are also attached to Jamaica.

LEEWARD ISLANDS

Comprise Antigua (with Barbuda aud Redonda), St. Kitts-Nevis (with Anguilla), Dominica, Montserrat, and the Virgin Islands, and lie to the north of the Windward group, and south-east of Porto Rico.

Governor and Gommandcr-in-Ohicf. — Sir H. Hesketh Bell, K.C.M.G. (2,600Z., and 100^. travelling allowance). Colonial Secretary. — W. E. W. Grant, C.M.G. (650Z.). AUonuy-GcneraL—T. S. Sidney, K.C. (500Z. without private practice).