The 1911 edition of "The Coasters' Tide Book and Naat Pocket Manual" has been issued and is now on aaleat the offices of the North-
China Daily News" in Shanghai, aod of Mesers. Gaupp and ('o. in Hongkong. The book has for many years proved a rade mecum to all "China coasters" as well a8 to shore men connected with the shipping trade, and the new edition is more complete-and jast as compact as any previous issue, The binding is in the same style as that of recent editions—with waterproof cover, a wallet for documents, anda lapel. The changes in thie issue include the addition of the Astronomical Ephemeris, the Bangkok Tide Table, the extension of the Storm 791
Signals, etc., and the revision throughout has been carried down to the latest possible date. Ip a prefatory note, the compiler (Mr. G. Gundry) states that it will be noticed that the signal number of the shipping has been changed, and the numbers for the local ships have Tikowise been altered; by this step the Marryat's Code is finally abolished. An effort is now made to bring all the ports on the Coast ander a uniform system. It is to be hoped that this will lead to uniformity of sign eral over the whole of the Chios Coast Ports,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.