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OIL WASTE AT `SEA."

The Times, in a leading article, says: - An quite of the Act prohibiting the discharge of oil from shipping within territorial waters, the pollution of ses and shore tends to increase. As the use of oil fuel and oil engines becomes more general, there

is a real likelihood of largoj tracts of coast becoming pitchy quagmires and their

neighbouring waters deserted by every form of life. The Oi! in Navig ahle Waters des cama inte oper

operation two years ago, and, with the active aid of the port authorities in

har bour and destroying

inoffensively, has Jone a good deal to protect waters close to port from the worst deflement. But the Act has not been successful in purg ing torn

territorial

waters a few miles out the Sitte

Jimies, port

beruse even the densest oily masses are buoyant and drift on shore from the open sea. We,

We have described this week how Dover beach has been invaded by rafts of oil so dense that the Harbour Board was reduced to destroying it by burning. Similar scenes have been witnessed during the past few days on the const of Dorset, Where long black belts of oil form afkind of Houting bar across the mouths of the coves and destroy by lingering starva- tion the seabirds which come in contact with ther

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Even thin film of oil, such as may escape.

from all mechanically driven Vessels may destroy fish and the food of fish by forming au air tight roof to the water. This is the which mosquito larve are extirpated

principle by

WEATHER REPORT.

11TH, 1925.

March 10th at 17.7.-Presard has decreased slightly from Shanghai to South Japan, and in- creased slightly to moderately elsewhere. It is highest over Tongking; a feeble anticyclonic area extends front thence to the Boxins Thu depression is grossing Korea.

Hongkong ainfall for the 24 hours ending at 18 hours, March 10th 0.00 inch. Tutal sines January 1st, 472 inches, against an average of 3.79 inches

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The forest for the 24 hours ending at 18 boars, March 11th is sa follow

DISTRICT Formons Channel N. winds, moderate.

Northerly or VATİ- Hongkong to Gap Bookable winds, light South coast of Chias between Hongkong and Lamocks, South cost of Chins between Hongkong and Hainan

to moderate; fine.

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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, March 10th.

Barometer Temperature Humidity Wind Direction...

Force

Weather...

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so far as we have yet means of judging, such a mischief can only be done in co- bined waters, and there is reason to hope that it can be averted by the «fficient up. plication of the existing Act. The most serious menace comes from fuel oil, which "Per 18.3. President Jefferson, drifts ashori In sticky s and March 10th:Mr. and Mrs." Wayne months later can be found lying in umps Pierson and two children, Mr. E. M. like asphalt, with

with the skeletons of guil Kompr, Mr. E. A. Wells. Mr. Ben C. lemota or putting protruding from it. In Bailey, Mr. Chan Dogg. Mr. Ma Dong report of which we have published Sue, Col. and Mra H. A. Orme, My, and summary only this week, a joint R. O,,Denney, Mr. and Mrs. W. F.

the Chatiber of Shipping and Buite

gan Flemmins. Ms. J. H. Fox, Mis J. Fox. the

Swam Liverpool

Ship Owners' Association expressed the view that out Mr. Dan Yoder, Mr. and Mrs. S. F. side territorial limits. it is only necessary

ry Cooke Mr. W, Burridge, Mr. 0. C.

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to legislate against these denser dis Van Lidth de Jando, Mr. H. T. Crane, charges, incluing thour from vessels Mr. W. Ott, Miss A. Wient, Miss M. L. propelled by Diesel engines, That limita de B. Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. H. S.

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seems justified by the facts. The Koner, Mrs. W. E. McEwan, Mr. G. S. conraittee suggests, therefore, that ship Forman, Mr. and Mrs. Wallman, Miss masters should be prohibited from dis, Wallman, Mrs. N. B. Solner, Mr. charging such oils within 150 miles from Chin Way Lai, Mr. Chun Wai Yee, Mr. shore a limit provisionally put forward

until experience shows whether the drift Chau Hong, Mr. W. E. Roberts. Mr. Fan of wind and current makes it wide en H. Rothwell, Mrs. Tom Gunn, Miss W. Wah Shun, Mr. W. M. Westland. Mr. cugh or possibly too wide. The obvious

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dimeulty is that such a prohibition, to Gunn, Miss Wong Luk, Mr. Dahn. Mr. be effective, must be international, and

and d. Guilielman, Rev. J. Frazer Smith, that not all maritime nations may show Mr. H. B. Grayhill, Mr. Chu Chew, Mr. equally active interest. But much Choy The Tam, Miss Machoda, Dr. M. be done to achieve international ac- E. Asger, Mr. G. E. Scott, Miss C. Levy, and, if the Miss M. Levy, Mr. F. P. Haslund, Mr. Cesired law was first applied to the ship-liv. Schrenics, Mr. and Mrs. H. Pick- ping of this country, the immediate in-ford, Mias H. D... Bullen. Miss Helen provement should manifest and we

we Bouby, Mr. H. Dieden, Mr. and Mrs. A. should be in a strong position for urging L. (iroff. other countries to support us. As for. naval vessels, which are believed to can- tribute considerably to the nuisance, it 18 generally recognized

ink the saine restrictions cannot be applied to them as Colchas (Blue Funnel), due on or about

Aki. Mark (N.YK.), due to-day. mercantile mariauthorities of Admiralty and the

to the

But our own

VESSELS EXPECTED.***

April 14th.

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other countries may reasonably be expect hapers of Commda (C.P.R.), dus to-day, ed to show some concern for the cleanli- Ampura of Russein (1..P.R.), due March ness of the element over which they pre- sid, and, as far as possible, to help to secure it,

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innaeus (Blae Funnel), due to-day.. Hector (Blue Funnel), due March 30th. Phemias (Blue Fannel), due on or about

March 28th.

President Garfield (Dollar), due March

17th..

GALE-BOUND FISH. ADVENTURE IN AN AEROPLANE.President Grant (Admiral Oriental), due

March 18th.

13th.

Tamba Maru (N.Y.K.), due March 16th.

One of the most unusual journeys ever. Prident Mauro (Dollar), due April made by fisa was completed recently by Sues More (NY.K.). due March 23rd. a number of guramis, tropical creatures from the Dutch East Indies, which were safely delivered at the London Zoo Aquarium after having crossed the North Sea by aeroplane during a fifty miles an absolutely against inflation; France has The French Government has decided hour gale. When the fab were despatched reached the limit of the decline in the from Rotterdam, the weather was com

value of the franc, and a further de paratively calm, but during the crossing preciation must be avoided at all costs.— the full force of the gale was encountered. Clementel (French Minister of off the English coast. The plane was forced to land at Lympnt. There the fish were kept wann in the sergeants', mess until morning, when the journey was con- tinued, the aeroplane landing at Croydon towards ten o'clock. On arrival an hour Jater in their new quarters in the Regent's Park Aquarium they were obviously suf fering from the result of their journey.

The gurami is a 6sh which posssessen annir envity beneath each gill-cover in which a supply of air can be stored for breathing As a result it is able to sur vive in the mud of a dried-up pond for à considerable period, obtaining a certain amount of oxygen from the air. In ap- pearance it is very striking, haying a curi- ous turned-up snout, whilst the rays of Home of the fins, end in a long slender filament which exceeds the length of the head and body. It is a nest-builder, the home, measuring about 6in. in circum- ference, being constructed of portions of aquatic plants. On being hatched from the eggs the young fish feed upon the materials of which the nest is formed.

"MERCIFUL INVENTION."

Sit Herbert Maxwell and an inter- rating point in a lecture to the Victoria League, recently:

The introduction of gunpowder was a" increiful invention. In mediava} battles the officers were always reserved for ransom, and the barons and knights loved fighting. When gunpowder was used, however, they found they were just an likely to get a bullet in their bodies as were the men, and they be came les fond of battle. Will some future historian, "asks a com- mentator. have to write of bombs and poison gas that they diminished the taste for warfare owing to the increased dan ger to the war-promoters at homel

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