As may be seen by the minutes of the last monthly meeting of the General Com: mittee (published in the local papers) the coal Chamber of Commerce has been very busy. Few questions crop up now that are not referred by the Government to the Chamber for their opinion, and this is usually a valuable one as the Committee are all men intimately acquainted with the and iis n que laid before them is the proposal for a systematic medical inspection of all vessels arriving in port, and this is, of course, a matter on which opinions are likely to differ. But the Committee are not going tobe rash, and have referred the subject to a Committee of experts.
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