The race for Sir Alfred Harmsworth's International Cup for -motor boats and the other motor -boat races which have taken place during the woak established the admirable adapt-
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'A. U. Belyea..
Hongkew " No. 2, 1897 wore in so enormous @ majority that the Liberal still got in with nine hundred votes to spare. In three years the Anti-Ministerial majority has gone up from 2,000 to 5,000 and the Free Traders outnumber the Fiscal Reformers by more than two to one. It is a heavy blow to Mr. Chamberlain because the iron and steel trade is immensely strong in the constituency, and this is the industry which Mr. Chamberlain contends has suffered most of all from dumping—the only trade on which -his " Commission" has yet reported. Up to the present there have been sixteen by-elections this year, and the Liberals have won fourteen of them. Making all allowance for the fact that a large proportion of the contests have happened in places specially favourable to Liberal success, the-plain inference is that a General Election at the ability of the petrol engine to boat propulsion, and the Admiralty is being strongly urged to undertake experiments with a view to the utilization of " motor boats," as they are called, in connection with the navy. Of course the term "motor boat" as -applied to these little vessels, is hardly appropriate, since the old steam launch is as. much a motor boat as that worked by petrol or-alcohol; but at present no appropriate word has been coined. - Unfortunately, Mr. Edge's boat which won the Harmsworth Cup has been disqualified on a technical ground, and the cup'has gone to'France; but that does not alter the fact that the English-built "Napier "Minor" was the" fastest boat in the race, and that whatever"
J. Em. Lemitre..
"Lo Torrent" No. 6 Ast Asst., R. J. Broad.
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