To the Editor of the "Norru-Caixa Dairy News,"
Sin,—In reference to the letters that have appeared in your paper on the above subject, I think the Navy List (which is published by His Majesty's Stationary Office, authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty) may be taken to give the correct answer to "In a Shij Looking over the Navy list, I find under the heading "Officers employed on Surveying Service" the following particulars, "Name," "Rank," "Ships in which borne," Where employed," and again under the different departments of the Admiralty, the officers on the active list are "Borne in President."
This should prove conclusively that officers serve in a ship, although their names appears o7 the books of that ship.
Had you stated in your article that Lieut. St. J. J. H. Pitt had served as a sub-lieutenant on board instead of on the Minotaur, you Would have been perfectly correct.
Hoping that "In a Ship" will be now satisfied and that he will make a certain amount of allowances for the poor editor who cannot sleep by day and has to sit up half the night to make little slips for such as "In a Ship" to pick upon and start an argoment.
I am, ete., oe. W. Shanghai, Aug. 7.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.