A CENTRAL AMERICAN TOWN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9484, 23 July 1902, Page 1

A CENTRAL AMERICAN TOWN.

Mrs John Logan, •widow of the lato j Queen's Counsel to the Governor of British. Honduras, writing to a cousin in. Wellington, from Ascension, Bay Yucutun, Central America, thus refers to the mushroom towns of that country :—"You can hardly realise that at lust Christmas the place was untrodden by the foot of man, and now is rapidly becoming a large i-japort town. We are under the Mexican Government, for whom Mi' Pluminer, of Belize, is superintending the railway to connect us with Merida, Hits c.ipiUl of Yucutan. He brought up 500 people from Belize in the skip. There are already 200 people here, barracks, hovpita.l, officers' quarters, houses and shops, with fresh houses' springing up daily. The General has a fine house; there is> an Indian camp for soldiers' wives, etc. and a. camp for the black people, about 100 bush houses, and ours, a-, superior house on a rise overlooking the whole camp, with a magnificent view (if the bay. The bay is nine miles across frutn. point lv point. They arc clearing the bush back every day, and .it. \ night it is picturesque and btrange to \sit outside in our rockers and watch the j^kre of the forest fires under the tropicjl * 'night, sky."