§ MR. MARSHALL HALL (Lancashire, Southport)To ask the Secretary of State for War by whose authority the band and pipers of the 1s Battalion Gordon Highlanders were advertised to give a performance (by kind permission of the colonel and officers of the regiment) on the pier at Southport, on Sunday 21st June last; and at whose instigation, and by whose authority, the performance was stopped after the hand and pipers had actually arrived at Southport.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) The Commander-in-Chief gave the orders for stopping the performance by the band because it was brought to his notice that irate money was to be charged for admission
| Colony. | Total Exports of Colonial Produce. | Exports of Sugar. | Percentage of Sugar Exports to Total Exports. | |||||||
| Jamaica (for the year ending 31st March, 1902) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,824 | 261 | 14 per cent. |
| British Guiana (for the year ending 31st March, 1902) | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,661 | 1,203 | 72 per cent. | |
| Trinidad and Tobago (for the year ending 31st March, 1902) | - | - | - | - | 1,554 | 512 | 33 per cent. | |||
| Barbados | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 744 | 710 | 95 per cent. |
| Grenada | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 301 | — | — |
| St. Lucia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 71 | 49 | 69 per cent. |
| St. Vincent. | - | - | - | - | - | - | 50 | 11 | 21 per cent. | |
| Antigua | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 107 | 101 | 94 per cent. |
| St. Kitts—Nevis | - | - | - | - | - | 113 | 109 | 97 per cent. | ||
| Dominica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 65 | 3 | 4 per cent. |
| Montserrat | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 5 | 49 per cent. | |
| * i.e., molasses and rum, and, in the case of Trinidad, "Angostura Bitters" also. |