The annual meeting of the local branch of the Navy League, held yesterday afternoon in the Chamber of Commerce Room, City Hall, was rather thinly attended, and the Hon.' Secretary was prevented from being present, as he was serving his country, the Chairman remarked, elsewhere, namely on a jury in the Supreme Court, But the proceedings were interesting, and several valuable suggestions were thrown out by some of the speakers, notably the facts that no merchant officers or seamen can join the Royal Naval Reserve out of England, and that the League have taken up the iveak points of the defences of Hongkong. The report was adopted, th Committee were re-elected and the nam of the Hon. H. E, Pollock added thereto Mr. Pollock being elected Hon. Secretary in place of Mr. Mitchell, who retired, THE NEW ROAD AT THE PEAK, now road at the Peak, to provide an alien I am glad to hear that the much desired native route to the Mount Kellett and Mount Gough districts, which willie comparatively easy of ascent, has at last received sanction and a sum of money voted for its early commencement, At present visitors to the Hills when they land at the Victoria Gap Station, find that everywhere they are confronted' by long and steep ascents, This new road is designed, after following the existing one to the eastward as fir as Treverbyn, to branch off and emerge by the Peak Club. If the hollow. in the existing road just beyond the Peak Hotel be filled up, a gradient of about 1 in 20 can be preserved along this route and an ascent of some 85 feet be avoided. This means that the pedestrian who goes to the Peak for a wall will be able to get it without an appreciable climb, and that the majority of the residents who now find the walk to the Tramway a toil will then deem it a pleasure,
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