The Gold Coast Chronicle
1895; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
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Editorial: The Gold Coast Chronicle. Classified ads: Multiple Classified Advertisements. Frontmatter: The Gold Coast Chronicle, The Gold Coast Chronicle Agents, Printed at the Office of the Gold Coast Chronicle Market Street, Accra, by J. T. Coffie— Printer for the Publisher.— 11/1/95. Essay: Sir—It Does Not Seem Likely That the Government Intend Doing Anything in the Water Question; Although a Few Wells Have Been Dug by Natives; Some of the Owners Were Asked to Fill up Theirs While Nothing Was Said to Others; One Ordered to Be Filled up Was Not 20 Yards from Another nor 100 Yards from Another Not One to Be Filled up; and All These Wells Are near the Streets, Our Authorities Are Never Tired of Making Laws, to All Appearances, and the Latest News Is That a New Ordinance Has Been Passed to Legalize the Seizure by the Government of All the Lands in the Colony That Are Unoccupied, Sir—Is It Correct That Our Government Intends Taking All Our Spare Lands for the Crown? We Are Pour People in This Part of the World; Our Slaves Were First Set Free without Any Compensation Being Made to Us, Our Houses Are Now to Be Taxed and We Are to Forego Our Lands, The Government of the Gold Coast Will Shortly Be Occupying the Attention of Lord Ripon; Who Will Have Another Opportunity of Recognising the past Service of Some Deserving Official, Truth and Fiction, Battalion Orders by Volunteer Headquarters Major Hodgson Accra 31st Dec. 1894 Commanding G. C. R. V., General News, Elmina, A Bill Intituled, Sir— Would You Believe That All the Grave Diggers in the Government Cemetery Are Attacked by Small-Pox? Because People Who Suffer from Small-Pox Are Buried There Together with Others Who Die from Leprosy, It Is No Wonder That This Should Have Been the Result.
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