There is a good prospect of a: really effective steam ferry service between the city of Victoria and Kowloon being shortly established, For many years' past the service, though fairly well conducted considering it has been provided by private owners, has been unequal to the growing wants of the traffic, the launches being both too small an' too slow for the service. A company, to be: called the Ferry Com: pany. Limited, is shortly to be started with a capital of $100,000, and it will place larg" double-ended boats specially design. ed for. the trafic on the line, to run every ten minutes and: to make:-the passage across the harbour isi five ninutes. The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and'Godown Ca., whose wharf at Kowloon is the terminus there of the ferry, and who supply much of the traffic, will manage the service, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Under this heading there is practically nothing to record. "The man-of-war anchorage is tin changed. The gunboat Redpole is being detained in Manila, where the situation is evidently critical. © The Portuguese transport Africa, well known in these Waters, arrived at' Singapore on the. Ist inst. from Mozambique on. the way.to Timor with 314 troops to assist in suppressing the rebellion there. Commodore Boyes leaves here on the 22nd inst., his, period of service on this station having expired,
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