No. 5184.-DECEMBER 20, 1879.]
Station No. 3-Leila, magenta and black.
Bow Mr R. Blades,... 108. 21. No. 2, Mr J. Sampson, .11st,' llb. No. 3, Mr H. A. Ritchie,....11st. 61b, Stroke, Mr E. L. Woodin,.....12st. lb. Cox, Mr H. Sampson, 7et. lb. Station No. 8.-Sylph, white, blue border.
est. 131b.
tall, came out for the winning mark at a rattling pace, tho Naomi following but now very unlikely to get her time off the Naiad who passed the line at h. 6 m. 14 neca 17, the Naomi's gun going at 5 b, 10 min. 8 secs. The Ariel passed the line 11st. 81b. at 5 h. 35 m. 43 secs. the Wave at 5 h. 40 .12st. 101b. min. 50 secs. The Naiad therefore won Stroke, Mr A. E. Travers,...18at. lb. the oaps on both days. Cox, · MrÁ, J. Lewis,
8st. Olb.
Bow, Mr W. Dunmat,.......
No. 2, Mr M. Falconer,
No. 3, C. W. Holliday,
For this, the lant race of the meeting, three boats came to the saratch, the Thistle taking the first station, the Leila the second as shown on the programme, and the Sylph the inner or third place. A very even start was effected, the busts getting well away" together, but when abreast of the Police Station at Yow-ma-ti the Sylph was compelled to come to a stop through the stretcher and seat of No. 2 oar giving way She was therefore compelled to leave the course. A close race followed between the remaining boats, resulting in a win for the Leila by about a boat and a half. length. Time, 7 minutes and 451 seconds.
Three cheers were given for Mrs Hon. neasy at the potiolasion of the distribution of the Cupa, three for the Ladies, and three each for the Chairman, the Secretary,
the Commodore and the Governor.
Errata:-in yesterday's account of the races, in the sixth race, for the Cont missariat simply walked away with the race" dia, read "the Zuls crew walked The Commissariat boat was last, beaten for the first time. AWAT." race, the Iron Duke's galley is put in the third place, it should be the Figilant ley.
In the fourth
REGATTA JOTTINGS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
indisposition. All bets had been made and booked. And yet the "invalid" can pull in two races, and win them too!
We do not for a moment wish to detract from the credit due to the English crew, But in a regatta, where the betting is on a crew as it stands, will the batting hold good? We know great odds were given, last evening, on the under atanding that Mr Dunman was going to row. We think it a fair question of appeal. The entries closed on a certain Is it permissible, in a Regatta, to day. make a post entry? We think otherwise.
Гарад.
HIOGO.
(Neos.) We are given to understand that the duplex system of telegraphy, with the Morse Instrument, has been in successful working for some months past on one of the longest of the Government lines, viz., that extending between Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagasaki.
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THE "DOUBLE ACROSTICS FOR THE A MAN'S ANSWER TO A WOMAN'S
SERVICES."
The "Double Acrostics for the Services" are distinguished by the two principal words being connected with the Naval and Military professions; such for example as "Sword," Marline-apike," "Platoon," &c. - No mach restriction applies to the lights. solutions should be sent to Epirou, China Mail Office, by noon, on the Friday fol lowing the publication of any one Acrostic, with the word " Acrostic" on the envelope. Any arriving subsequently will not "bo entertained,
NORTH CHINA. (Japan Gazette.) The accounts wo receive from North Chloa assure as that for the present certainly, and probably for a long time to dome at any rate, peace between China and Japan will romain unbroken. sorry to say that, in our informant'a opin- ou, there is in Chins no diminution of i feeling toward Japan, so that if China, All which is very willing to wound but afraid to strike, should come to think herself strong enough to attack Japan with any chance of success hostilities might quickly come about if the present mood of enmity should last long enough. Considerable orders have been sent to Europe for deli very to China in April and May next. These orders comprise gun vessels and torpedo boats, torpedo apparatus, cannon small arms, ammunition, and machinery,
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SAILING RACE.-For all open boats, Chi-ally popular, and the racing, on the whole, Leonore is still classed Al, and is a handy great builness is now being done with
nese excluded. Entrance $2. First prize, $20; second, $10. Station No. 1.--Mr N. Spratt's Small Fith.
...
No. 2.-Mr P. H.Emanuel's Daphne, white, bluo Maltese cross.
This was an easy race for the Small Fish,
the Daphine boing badly managed.
3
vessel
A
premium of $10 will be given to the person giving the greatest number of correct solu- tions by Now Year's day.
Every Saturday a row Acrostic will be given, together with the solution of the one of the previous week. The successful names will lso be published.
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Match.
quorum
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Correct answers have been received from "Jack & Jill," "Globules," "Kobe Eagle," "Ubique," "Vox Populi," "Funny Phin,"
A very general Improvement has place in the whole internal trade taken Chinese empire, and if the winter passos over peacefully a great further revival of The demand amongst the Japanens for internal commeros is expected for the noxt vessels of foreign construction continues. summer and autumn, so much so that it is gal-We note the disposal of three small vessels hoped the first steps of improvement of to native buyers during the past few days, waterways, roads, and intercommunications the schr. Alerta, 215 tons, for $6,200, the will commend themselves to the high brig Leonore, 251 tone for $7,600 and the authorities as good not only for strategy bela Orinoco, 220 tons, for $4,500. These but for commerce and reveNUS, This year's Regatta has been exception-vessels all flew the British flag. The
Some new trades have started up. Her purchaser le having her cabin Mongolia, which country a few years ago handsomely furnished, and intends to ship yielded only a few skins and some fusigui- number of apprentices, or midshipmen, ficut articles in return for the imported who will live aft, and learn the mysteries manufactures wanted. Now the balance is of seamanship and navigation. The Orinoco in favour of the Mongols, who sell great is zinoed, Instead of coppered, which at-
quantities of hides and skins, wool, camels counts, to a certain extant, for the relatively hair, feathers, and carpets, considerably in zmaller price obtained for her, in com excess of the imported goods, so that syceeshould e'er some footstep haply stray. parison with the price paid for the Leonore is flowing at a good rate into the pockets A native Japanese paper states that of the desert. But then there are Where caution marks the guarded way," Butsu-ji Yama, Hiroshima Kon, by official transport company has had to
been discovered on official rings to stifle the trade, and the Should such a one observe the chime, shizoku of that perfecture, Mr Yoshida, change its ways, and exists now under He'll bear the aubject of this rhyme, for permission to work it. Butsu-ji Yama intection, so that no great fault can be When to the open sky I turn my face Is only 3 ri distant from Mihara, Bingo, found, now with the China Merchant No danger fear; but seek for Heaven's grace the meat of the proposed navy yard. Steamer Company.
If closed my eye, and pray the roaring wind May coase its battling and be once more
has been worthy of the public favour. The method of starting was primitive and clum By. There should have been buoys, with lines attached, previously moored at their proper
a coal-mine has
distances apart, and in line. This would have saved great delay and trouble. The soulling exhibition was decidedly mediocre. YACHT RACE.-For all Yachte. Entrance It is a pity Mr Woodin did not give a lesson $5. Time for Tonnage. Cup present in the art for the benefit of certain young ed by the Victoria Recreation, Club Btation No. 1.-Mr J. MoLeod's Cutter/gentlemen to whom allusion has been made who has made application to Government different conditions to those of its first
Naiad, 29 tons, red, white, red and blue in our columns some few days ago.
oroso.
A gratification of 2,500 yen has been presented to the workmen engaged on the Kioto-Olsa railway extension, by the Goy. ernment.
NEWS NOTES FROM HONOLULU,
and "ON."
kind.
I.
1.
THE P, & O. COMPANY'S BEST BOAT. The Kaisar-i-Bind is thus spoken of by the Bombay Gazette. We have been over the ship two or three times, and our con- She nearly lost her husband's life. temporay's remarks soom to us very fair and just :-
So much has been said In praise of the Kaisar by writers who have only seen her in harbour that it is right to mention the less favourable opinton apparently enter- tained of her by passengers of experience
A sister she and also wife,
bird,
2.
{
"For shame! For shame ?" so spoke a little In English poem, thought by some absurd.
The Royal Artillery in the Gunner' get Station No. 2.-MrH. Dickie's Cutter, Ariel, an example of good rowing to every crew at
13 tons, blue, with white anchor. Btation No. 8. Mr C. V. Smith's Catter, the Regatta, if we except the Celestials, Both the Men-of-war's men, French and Wave, 21 tons, blue, white star. Station No. 4. Mr W. H. Forbes Catter, English, and the Police, seem to consider Naomi, 30 tons, blue and white triangle. that the acme of perfection in rowing is The yachts started at 1h. 11min. 31sec. attained by jerking the body over the car The C. M. 5. N. Coy's steamer Hochung in a light air from the northward, which with a violence painful to behold, giving to arrived bu the 14th at Honolula, landing the unpractised eye the appearance of a boat there Mr Fan Yan Ki, accredited by the atrengthened as they got down the harbour, full of men being suddenly seized with the Chinese Empire to the government of these the Naiad, from her weatherly position, get-colic. The Gunners did the mile in forty- Islands with full powers to negotiate a ting the best of it. As they passed ont the five seconds quicker time in their inrigged treaty of amity and commerce with the beat, than did Mr Woodin'a German crew Hawaiian Kingdom. The presence of an Cap-sing-moon Pass, the wind freshened in the Leila. Before leaving this part of Ambassador from the Chinese government into a nice sailing breeze, in fact the little the subject, let us express a hope that for and an Agent of the Navigation Company once the ole ole custom of bucketting in the person of Senor Celso Cæsar Moreno, one had more then she knew what to do
tive Hongkong. The Thistle proved herself that the Chinese government means busi voyage has put her capabilities to the proof, by several lengths the best crew for the ness with this Kingdom. In our humble all her resources having been taxed to the Beth birds, beasts, and fishes endeavour to Chairman's Cap, for had not her coxswain opinion we think that it is high time that uttermost She has brought to Bombay apparently lost his head as well as his hat, action should be taken by both Govern-166 first class passengers, besides many (That is they would surely if well they could Air Travers would have won by at least ments looking to more complete com second-class and deck passengers, and a three lengths more than he did. Mr Bet-mercial arrangements between the two very large cargo, including many packages They all tacked close round the mark nett rowed a strong and pretty car; he and countries. The large Chinese population of winter clothing for the Afghan troops, the stroke of the Gunner showed the best on those Islands warrants the Chinese and could just lay to the Chung Hue flag-form at the Meeting.
authorities in looking after the interesta boat, which was rounded
and well-being of the Chinese here, and we are pleased to know that a better under standing is about to be had between the two countries."
3.
QUESTION. Well do I know that the thing I ask
Is the costliest thing on earth. A true woman's heart and wonderful love,
Who can express their worte i How many a man, with wealth at command,
Hath purchased a lífs of painl For he who hath thought that love could be
bught
Bath spent his money in vain,
But love, though it cannot be bought,
be given,
Thy noble heart, that priceless glit, And this thing I seek in thee i
I
More dear then all else to me.
-
want a true and faithful beart,
With heavet purity blest,
which, through storm and sunshine here,
My world-toned spirit may rest,
I want a partner in all my hopes,
A star in my night to be seen,
To cheer me in treading the narrow way,
A true woman to be my queen.
Aqueon for that beautiful ́rea'm called
home,
My dear home ruler and friend, On whom to bestow my heart's fond love
A love that never shall and,
I want a nature earnest and puro,
-And all that a woman ahould be;
Give this, and I will, with help from above,
Be all thou desirest of me.
What cares or worldly misfortunes can harm
Two hearts thus united by love, That love which alone from the highest
proceeds,
An earnest of life, above |
Note. For "A Woman's Question," by Eliza beth Barrett Browning, see the China Mail of 6th inst., after the " Acrostic."
adams, Lieut. U. M. S. Excellent, Ports-
Dead Letters.
mouth,
Bask, Miss J., Toxteth Park, Liverpool, I Black, Dr., Magazine Park, Birkenhead, 1 Borges, d'Azevedo Ennes, J.J., Lisboa, 1 Carpenter, W., Shanghai,caporat Coller, Miss, Belfast, Ireland,............. Dehnert, H., Post Office, Singapor...... 1 Dubois, M., 58, Rue du Faubourg Mont-
marire, Paris, ....
1 Dun, Mra. i, 45, Priory Grove, Everton,
Liverpool,
...........(8) 1 my Turner,
... 1 Esson, W., 63, Pigott Street, Limehouse,
London,
Dyer, B., American bark
New York,......
Fleming, P., 118, Word Street, Pitta
burgh, U.S A.,
with. The Cow-e-chow mark was rounded. Will be rejected for ever, even in conserva- plainly indicates, says the Hawaiian Gazette, who have made a voyage in her. This last Far from me! Far from me! on land and on Gill, A., St. Thomas Streat Boarding
Naiad,
Naomi, Ariel,
Wave,
Nasad,
Naomi,
Ariel, Wave,
b. min. neca. 1 67 .30
1 59 30
2 5
2 12 45
br-min. secs 2 21 10
2 28 7 2 26 35
2 31 10
The Naiad still kept the lead, which she held to the Flag-ship, the mark being
rounded
Naiad, Ναυπιί
Ariel, Wave,
b, min. secA.
INNAN
2 44 15
47 15 52 30 58 45
The Naiad overreached in beating to the Regatta Bay mark, ad the Naomi seeing this, stayed at once, profiting considerably by the move, and the Wave getting asiant out of Yow-mab-th Bay closed up with the Ariel. The mark was rounded
Naiad
Naomi,
Arich
Wave,
b. min. secs.
2 50
3
8
5
8
9 .55 -9 12 85 The Naiad was very quick in her canvas and increased her lead at the Flag ship mark. The round was concluded
Naiad, Noomi,
h. min. seca.
8 11 10
8 14 30 3 19 8 22.85
On the 17th, which was observed as a holiday in Honolulu, it being the az niversary of His Majesty, King Kalakana's birthday, the shipping in the harbor was profusely decorated with bunting in bonor
sea,
fee,
600),
4.
5,
Emblazoned on some hoary warriors' caps, Who now have surely 'soaped the war's win-
baps.
yore
6.
A source of England's strength in days of when on her front the mailed warriors Then a sure cause of death, e'en now a sign Where man to earth his body doth resign.
bore;
7.
A little flower or shrub, yet gave a name For ever blazoned on the scroll of fame.
which she took off the Australia at Ply- An antique name for a new complaint, mouth, and which can now hardly be in We fear Mr Woodin had a passenger on
time to be of much aervios. Every part of Sharp torment it of ainner and saint. board elad in Magenta. The Hon. Secre-
the ship, in fact, was full. Several firate tary rowed pluckily but appeared fine
class passengers were packed four together drawn. We have said enough about the
in eight berthed second-class cabine; and rowing of the sailors. The German Cap
it was found necessary to have two break produced a mapital race. From the start
fasts and dinners in the saloon every day. Mr Travers No 2 was done, and one fancied
Nothing could be better, in these circum- that he carried some dead weight with him
stauces, than the management of the ship though clad in White and Blue. Anyhow,
itself and the cuisine. The speed of the a splendid race ensued, and whoever may of the occasion, prominent among which Kaisar, too, is undeniable. She has doue think that the veteran Stroke of the V.B.C. was the Chinese steamer Hochung.
an average of over 300 miles a day all the cannot quicken, must have been thoroughly The China Merchant's Steam Naviga-way from Suez, against for three daya at undeceived on Friday off the Shears, tion Company's steamer Bochung, Captain least a strong bead wind in the Indian To-day the racing was productive of first-Peterson, arrived in this port on Thursday Ocean; and the same rate of speed would, class sport.
The style of the boats in the morning, the 14th Nov., 28 days from but for the delays in the Canal, have given first race was as vicious as when they pulled Whampoa, with 451 Chinese passengers, 13 as the English mails last Sunday night, yesterday. The Third Race, the race of the of whom are females. The Hochung aleo that te to say, in 16 days' time from Lon- meeting, as far as the general interest was brought as a passenger Mr C. C. Moreno, don. She is very steady, too, against a concerned, was productive of a good race, who is the agent for the company in a head wind, though she rolled heavily in and at the same time, of both good and in- Hawaii, and who is also authorized to enter the Bay of Bisosy with the wind on the different rowing. The substitution of a new into negotiations with the Hawaiian gov. beam. But, as a type of passenger ship man at the last moment proved of inestim-ernment relative to the future movements instead of being an improvement on auch A term applied to unctions oily things.-- able service to the English. The English of the Chinese immigrating to these ships as the Pekin, the Hindostan, the Useful when said of looks and bolts and stroke rowed well, indeed excelled his per- Islands. From, this, says the Gazette, it Descan, and o here, she is decidedly inferi- springe.
The remainder would seem that a new field of operations or to them in many respects. She may be formance of yesterday.
In the Irish boat all is about to be opened up on the part of the defined as a big ship with nothing big backed him up well. praise is due to Mr Bennett. He has fully Chinese government through the Naviga about her, sustained his previous day's reputation, as tion Company, who contemplate running a about the prettiest and most honest oar in line of steamers between China and Callao, the Colony (amongst the younger hands). touching at and taking in the direct trade The even betting we predicted last week with these Islands, and thus make the line has been fully substantiated, for we warned a profitable one. In such an arrangement all against laying the ridionlous odds we can easily conceive how beneficial direct which, even then, were offered on either communication would be with China for this Kingdom, and we hope that whatever negotiations may take place will be carried on and consummated with that sole object in view.
TGW.
In the Fourth race, perhaps the closest finish seen on the Hongkong course ensued, between the Armide's Admiral's antter and Iron Duke. We heartily congratulate our gallant allies on their desperate victory,
driet, Wave, And as the wind appeared to be still freak
The Sculling again was of a third rate order THE BRITISH FORCE IN CHINESE down the harbour it was decided to send and somewhat monotonous. Here we can- AND JAPANESE WATERS.
(Japan Goretti) the boats round a second time. The Naiad not refrain from protesting against another held the lend all the way down to the Cow-le Ole Custom, in stopping a Regatta to e-Chow mark, which was rounded,
Naiad, Naomi, Arich Wave,
1. m. secs.
3 56 55
4
2 30
4
5 42
Her salooon is low and not well proportioned. Her cabin accommoda. tion is surprisingly small for so large a ship, and numbers of the first class cabins have as ma y as four berths. There are two sets of cabins on the spar deck on either side of the engine room, which, pas. sengers who have had to use them, pro- nouoce to be decidedly uncomfortable, but those are pleasant in comparison with the deck cabins at the stern of the ship im- mediately over the screw. Any one who
8.
THE BISHOP AT SEA.
Yonior.
A story I've heard of a Bishop out here,
Who lived in the old, old day, And, disliking the sea, more at home did
appear
On the see that don't end with an a.
Occasion he had a short voyage to make
In the burst of the autumn monsoon,
School. South Hackney,.......
1
1
1
Greabam, F.G., Post (ffice, New York,... 1 Grandin, Malle, 23, Kue de Bres,
1
Paris, ...... Griffiths, Miss A., Pen Gelli, Carnavon.
S. W., Hatnos, Miss K., South Grove, Highgate,
London.............(8.) 1 Howe, Scale & Co., Vermouth, fazi.... 1 Johnson, Mrs., 770, Pios Street, San
Francisco,
McNamara, Miss, Ipswich Hospital,
Queensland, Monroe, J. W., San Francisco, ........... 1 Nusurwanjee, Pestonjee, Daroowalla,
Bombay,
1 Paton, Rob.rt, 16 A., Charlotte Street,
Fitzwig Square, London,... ... ..... 1 Robe-tsun, E.J., Barque Lady Bowen,"
Yokobama,
Francisco,
Rule, Miss Stella, P. O. Bux 7,401, Sán Scott, J., 86, Alma Road, Lowestoft .... 1 Sherwood, Mr., Sailors' Home, long-
kong,
Sialen, R., Hunter's Point, Long Island,
New York,.....
1 Smith, Mrs. C.A., 53, New Street, Green-
wich,
*** 1 Smith, Mrs. F., 13, Church Street, West-
minster,......
1 Snow, Miss, Windsor Road, Ealing, ..(6.) 1- Thorne, Professor, Yokohama,............ 1 Valery, G.A., Noumes, Nouvelle Cale
donie,..
1 The above letters have been returned from various places at which the addressees cannot be found. If not claimed within ten days they will be opened and returned
to the writers, (3) Pusted at Shanghai,
General Prat Uffice, Hongkong, 16th Dec., 1879.
Quotations.
Boxezone, December 20.
wishes to realize what Sancho Panza's feel. With his truly soul-stirring discourse to OPIUM.New Patna, cash... $567
awake
The slumbering souls at Rangoon.
The sea it was rough, and the ship it-did
lurch, And it blow without reason or rath;
And
cash, New Malwa, oredit, 700 Allowance Tsels,
Old
52
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11
cash,... 595 New Benares, cash, 517
Old
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11
11
the consequence was this mainstay of
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Old Mains, credit, 750 Allowanes Taein,
Bank, Wire,...
010
9/01
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Demand,
3/9
10
30 days' sights
3/91
2
4 months' sight,
3/97
5/10
the Church
Suffered much for the sake of the truth.
The ses it grew rougher, the night it grew
- black, And the rain-drops fell heavy and thick, And the Bishop he heartily wished himself
back, And Bangoon-it might go to old Nick!
Ho stumbled on deck, and the tempest des-
cried;
ings were when he had been tossed in a blan- kat at the inn should sleep for a night in one of these cabins. The immensely powerful screw, as it revolves, gives such shooks as We are glad to see the English papers makes the whole after part of the ship leap present one particular prize. It may be have called the attention of the home at as it were into the air, and it is simply necessary that all dowagers and their res-thorities to the condition of the vessels of craeity to animals to put any persons to pestive focks should reach the paternal roof the British force in Chinese and Japanese sleep in such places. Indeed, the increased 3.61 15 in time to secure the cup which cheers but waters. In truth, by comparison with the speed of the P. and O. steamers, meaning not inebriates, mais ce n'est pas la guerre.' fleets of France, Germany, and Russia, the as it does increased vibration from the The rowing in the naval officers' race was ships under Admiral Opote's command are sorew, in another argument in favour of oharacterized by the same dismal bucket-iserably inadequate, if complications putting all the first class cabins in front of There was more eating at the boatsing which intents as a disease so much of should arise, for the performance of the the engines and boilers. The P, and 0. the rowing we have lately witnessed. The assigned duties. If war broke out the builders stick to the old arrangement, but rounded, and it was a dead beat at the stronger and not the better oTEW WOD. chief part of the squadron would have to have tried to effect a miserable compromise Chong-Hue mark, when Naomi began to
The race for the American Cup gave rise crawl into Hongkong for the protection of in the Kaisar-i-Bind as regards one of the to much speculation, and was instructive the batteries that command the entrances draw up to the Naiad, but there was not and to a certain extent satisfactory, in and harbour. For instance, there is the enough to make it a sure thing. The demonstrating thoroughly the great superi- Iron Dake armed with two hundred and ority of Mr Woodin's craft. We proclaimed fifty pounders only: the Charybdis, on old Chong-Rue mark was rounded,
her a good two lengths better than any other vessel, with old boilers, and of low speed boat over the course; and so she proved the Lgeria now near the end of a second herself to be. The Servios crew pulled commission; the Fly, Frolio, Grower, flert in better time and form than the Leila, Barnet, Kestrel, Midge, all old, mostly after making due allowance for Mr worn out and scarcely able to face head Murphy's shortcomings. The Leila won winds. The Vigilant seems to be always There was a slashing breze after rounding by a length and a half. Taken man for in difficulties, and the only sound vessels and the boats travelled fast for the-Flag-man, the Service' crew were the more of the feet are the Encounter, Comus, Lap
powerful.
wing and Pegasus. The French have one ship, the mark at which was rounded, The line given about the Members' Cup very efficient small ironclad, the Armide,
was fully borne out by the result.
and & more powerful vessel, the Themis, And now we have to broach two unplea-will soon be due, and in all the Eglish sant subjects. At one time from the Um- navy there are but eight vessels fit to com. pire's Launch could be counted over a dozen pete in epesd and effectiveness with the ou alt in the saloon on skeife board. Instead of in an easy chair. You cannot launches steaming steadily ahead of the Champlain, Fergusien, and other swift crui get your legs under the table for more than same, and many of the competing crews. sers. The Germans have the Prins Adul a few inches because the floor is piled with This was notably the case in the "Interna bert, a vessel similar to H. M. 8. Bacchante, extra leaves and camp stools; so that you And tional," and we go so far as to say that the and a fast corvette, the Luis. The Rushave the pleasure of eating your dinner losing orew suffered from this outrage on alan force will soon be most formidable, while sitting in a pillory. Then all the
Naiad,
Naomi
Arith Wave,
Nalad,
Naomi
Ariel,
Wassi
h. m. sec. 4 30 30 4 93 5
4 46
not timed.
h. min. sec. 4 56 .80 4. 69 --- 18-- B. 28, 00 The Naiad still held her way although the „Naomi, with a spinnaker on bowsprit-and, hunted her very close; but barring soci
But, before he retired to his bed, He took the bold skipper a moment aside,
And thus to the skipper he said
goad features of the Orient or the White Star ships, by putting up a hurricane deck in the middle of the ship. In the Orient, the hurricane deck, being in front of the engines and boilers, is erfectly unencum. hered, and forms a delightful promenade for passengers. But the Kaisur's hurricane deck has the smoke-stack, engine room, and kitchen in the middle, and lines of henceopa on either adde. There are inter- mediate passages, along which passengers may walk, if they care to bave one side of their faces burnt by the intense heat of the ship's furnaces, and the other chilled by a The skipper he hitched himself up, and he gale of wind. In smaller matters, we fat all the old blunders repeated in the Katsar,
"O skipper, I really enjoy a good blow,...
And 'tis truly a glorious sight; But your candid opinion I'm anxious to
know,--
As
Do you think there is danger to-night P"
laughed,
Then he suddenly grew very grave,
oraft,
a hurricane squall seemed to stagger the
And she buried her nose in a wave.
Exchange.
Credits, 4.,, "
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he said, "Well, your grace, it's a (Taken at Mesars Falconer & Co.'s Premise
dirtyish night,
But whether the vessel will ride,
denta the cup was almost a certainty for decency and fair sport. It reminded one comprising, as it does, the Misin with beriabes have hard comers; there is no I really can't tell you; we'll know before BAROMETER-- 9 AH......
the Notað. The mark in Regatta Bay was
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of the haloyon days of the penny steamboats twelve lach armour and six hundred pound, room to sit up in a lower berth with t at the University race, when in 1850 they er osuson, and the fast and heavily armed thing your head against the upper berth succeeded in swamping Cambridge, to the new corvettes Cuise, brek, Digit, Stond to climb into the upper berth you intense delight doubtless of book-muskers, de, all fitted with long range guns, and require the agility of a gymnast, as there b. min. seca and Arry and his young Indy out for the able to keep the sea for months together. are no fixed steps in the cabins by which
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We do not refer to the vessels of the Ja you may mount When will the P. and 0. Now for the last query, which we appanese navy as possible enemies, or the Company learn to discard the old theory proach with diffidence. At the last moment, new vessels which are supposed to form that people who go to sea should be made few hours before the International race the strength of the navy of the empires uncomfortable as possible, and aim at was run, Me Sampson was substituted for seem to spend much of mout of theis time converting their steamers into luxurious Mr Dunman, on the shore of the latter's in dock,
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light:
In Providence we must confide.”
Good gracious!" the Bishop exclaimed in
dismay,
This is terrible, skipper! you don't mean As he olutched at his old shovel hat,
to say
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