22nd October.
Tue letter from "The Master of a Tramp Coaster" which appeared under the above heading in our issue of the 23rd of July last has elicited a remonstrance from a competent authority now in England, of which we have much pleasure in giving the substance, first, in_ justice to the Customs Lighthouse Department, which seems to have been attacked on insufficient and unreliable grounds, and, second, because it conveys some information of great interest to the shipping world in these waters.
"The Master of a Tramp Coaster began by saying: " Thear that the \Imperial Maritime Customs hive nearly definitely decided to give up the idea of erecting a lighthouse on Tangying Island. The reason, I believe, is purely one of expense, as engineering difficulties nowarlays simply resolve thems-ives into a matter of dollars, the word impostible not being found in the modern engineer's dictionary." The writer
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