Monday, Ist' December, being the birthd"y of our Gracivus' Queen Alexandra, Queen-Consort of His Majesty s\ ing Edvard VII, all the British shiis in harbour, including two men-of-war, H1.M.S. Goliath and the Surveying Ship, H.M.S. Rambler, dressed ship in honour of the auspicious occasion. Moreover, all the eight Americ men-of-war did likewis#, in sympathy with the event. and do -biless it was not a mere. outward recognition of honour, but a tribute to the sterling character and acknowledged worth of the Royal lady who for so many years has been known as a woman both of exceeding be-uty and of unusual kindliness of heart. "Many happy returns of the day" is a wish in which all nations can join heartily. irrespective of race or cleed?
Movements of Warships.
4UM.S. Rambler arrived here on Saturday, Seth November, but Ife on Wednesday, 3rd December, to undertake survey in: the: vicinity of' Chapel: Island Lighthouse, in order to discover. the exact to be in the the may be successful in finding it, inasmuch as the incross-d draught of m: dern Fteamers adds to the dangers of the deep, and necessitates. constat cure in surveying and noting the comtition of all those channels where hips are obliged to travel The fect of eight v sees of the U.S.A. Guveroment that had been eullecting here for come time, left us in a body on Wedaesday, 3rd December, en route for Hongkong
they lay in along row, new Joo%8_ quite deserted, for we had grown accustomed to seeing them tore. The two Japanese veasrls lind alresds Ff us the previous wee
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