JAMAICA AS A HOME FOR EMIGRANTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6511, 9 January 1882, Page 5

JAMAICA AS A HOME FOR EMIGRANTS.

“ If we may accept the testimony of Captain Kennedy, of H.M.S. Druid,” observes the Qlole, “Englishmen in search of a new home may go farther and fare worse than by establishing themselves at Jamaica. This island has acquired a bad name, Captain Kennedy admits, but be believes (his to have come to pass through the reports of naval officers, who have drawn conclusions from their own experiences at Port Boyal. In the interior, especially towards the north of _ the island, the climate leaves little to be desired in point of salubrity, while those who object to heat can suit their tastes by resorting to the higher lands. The much talked-of ‘hurricane,’ which plays such a conspicuous part in the * Cruise of the Midge’ and ‘Tom Cringle’s Log,’ is a very rare visitor to Jajnaioa, only one having taken place there during the last half century. Butitwillsurprise many to find Captain Kennedy affirming that Yellow Jack ‘is almost unknown’ even at Port Boyal. As regards the profitableness of farming in Jamaica, good results are said to be realised on _ the banana, coffee, cocoa, and tobacco plantations, and there seems every likelihood that every year will augment the fruit trade, owing to the steady growth of the European demand. But it is to cinchona cultivation that the settler should chiefly turn attention. Some time back we gave a few particulars of the success which had attended this experiment, and now we learn from Captain Kennedy that the cultivation of the plant has become ‘ one of the most lucrative industries in the island.’ If Mr Hughes is in want of a promising spot to replant his Tennessee colony at, the highlands of Jamaica would seem to meet all requirements.