Commissioner. Drew took a small party out -to be-present at. the exercises connected, with. the formal lighting of the new Pharos, which.surmounts Tungyung island, where; it will be remembered, the British-mail steamer Sobraon was wrecked a few years ago. Consul Gracey and Mr. Drew made appropriate speeches after the lighting, which was done by Mrs. Dick, wife of the constructor. This is said to be one of the best first-class lights in the world. The reflecting prisms are arranged in the form of an immense globe with four faces of concentric circles of prisms, and the light is very powerful.
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