Ir is perhaps worth while to draw a little more attention than has been given hitherto to, the revised Harbour Test Y for say ug' that the peace exist relations between t Republics under the Conventions Regulations for the port of Shanghai never more then were me rence. A discus: rea by Mr. Rocher, Commissioner ug the Fr had been proceeding: for some months of Customs, on the 17th ultimo, after the impress between her Majest y's Goverment and the ying agreed to and_sanetioned by stand the) icing Lreaty Power Consuls at the agreed to and sanctioned by
hibition to pi under which} ports Chere is not very much in-us further the South African }deed that is new in them, but is ie phe were suffering. In the course of ible that to many of ow readers ay have the charm of novelty, first thing to notice is the alteration in the limits of the har-fright mot to hour, which now extends from the anatters of anthem end of the Chinese Bund Queen ited the in Tut we must to the Yangking Creek. The plan the odious which accompanies the Regulations shows that the Tangkadoo Wharf and ultimatum, Tangkadoo Dock are now within the jesty; and the limits of the harbour, the line being hom th had [drawn a little above the Tangkadoo hark Uday afer Wharf. This is a decidedly valuable inst the fort concession. The eastern limit of the rocks held by the en for the absence nmedintely invaded by the two spirit, and for the Tail ty three towns wi harbour is at the Yangking Creek, shoulder tw shoulder portion of the two which is opposite and about a fifth of the whole lo below the Yangtszepoo Creek those who did so that the Royal: Dutch Oil Whar as if our cole the Oriental Dock, and the Cosmoment profit their se were amy he politan Dock are outside the limit of this would anchorage for foreign vessels. After the definition of the limits come a the te remove it, nto the French te see number of regulations which we need coe future othe heel of the not dwell on, showing how. vessels tien, ug are to get berths from the Assistant Harbour Master, unie: ince of Wales. are called "deter naw in the work who had it in Ws pon with which these prepara mninied berths," ait is, have regular whole ink it nocessiry te di homes to go to: and it is mentioned fut the result that four berths in the Upper Reach und more nee, and they ied ith} will be kept for the use of men-of-Instructions are given as to bar from in. shifting berths, showing lights, using winging booms, and "k ping clear ha not allowing anchor chains to get twisted together; and w acc the sian it is ordered that when a vessel ig haulingsto or from the wha the use to which th" two} buoys in the 6th or 7th sections of Republics have put the position which the harbour, so that the channel is The meetin decided accept the invitation. ven to them, and th 5 which closed for the time, a large black ball must be hoisted at the flagstaff? of We have had pretty full details by either the China Merchants' Lower wire of the telegram to the X i arf or the Shanghai and Hong-of Salisbury in which Mes: tiger dependence either W and the vessel's lines and Steyn asked for peace on the must not be run out until ten minutes basis of the acknow ledgment by Britain of the " in contests after this signal has been hoisted, pendence of both Republic There is a usefal rale prohibiting sovereign international Si and healthy complexion produced by usiar, boats making fast to vessels in too "the assurance that those of Her LypoR, the most soothing, great numbers: a sti may be seen sometimes with such a number alate who have taken healls curative and refreshing preparation, of boats on each side of her, that she I sutler and warranted harmless to the mo-t delicain looks like a bat with its wings spread soever in person or It prevents and removes out. Another rule forbids vessels property." The following ts the fall Tan, Sunburn, Resiness, heal text of the answer sent on behalf of neons firing off cannons or small arms with-H.M.s Government tions, Irritation, of Insects,}OUb a written permission from the arbour Master, which we should ima-"Phe Margni y to the Pre-Eczema, Wurns, imparts ut beauty sidents of the an Republic und te the complexion, am arrays the neck, gine is not often applied for. There Orange Fi hands and a are a number of excellent regulations ins in mat less whiteness, unintended topreventthe accidental dis-"T have the honour to acknowle obtainable by 2 Chemite for ober means Ask Stores charge of explosives in the Harbour. Towouns talbunaia dated th and Chemists for Rowraxp's Katypor, and} It has happened, though the comin, of which the purport avoid poisonous imitations. munity have not generally known is principally to demand that her Majesty's]
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