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require an expenditure of a large amount of capital; in some cases more than can be provided by private owners, unless there is a great revival in the price of sisal hemp.
I venture to enclose a copy of an article I wrote 3 years ago for the Trinidad Agricultural Record on the subject of a "Fibre Machine".
If Sir A. Shea would be so good as to furnish additional information on the points I have mentioned it would, I am sure, be of great interest, as the Governors of many Colonies, even those which have no intention or prospect of competing with the Bahamas, are most anxious for the success of his experiments and are anxiously watching them.
I have the honour to be, My Lord Marquess, Your Lordship's most Obedient Humble Servant,
William Robinson