Bassein to Dalhousie, two-thirds outward rates. Schedule of pilotage rates on and after 13th May, 1901, for all vessels from Diamond Island to town and vice versa :

Towage. The Port authorities have purchased a powerful tug, which has been available from January, 1903. Rates according to the scale laid down. Official, Port Officer, Collector of Customs, and Superintendent of Mercantile Marine, C. R. Ford, Commander, R.I.M.; Inspector Preventive Service, P. P. Sartorius.

BASTIA, Corsica. Lat. 42° 43′ N; long. 9° 26′ E. Pop. 30,000. Tr.-E. Oil, wine, goatskins, citrons. Accn. In new port vessels berth alongside quays. D. at quays 20 to 25ft. Old port for small vessels. Charges. Quay dues as for all French ports, sanitary 15c per reg. ton; loading or discharging Ifr. 25c. per ton. Pilotage. C, 8c to 10c per reg. ton. Chief commercial port of Corsica. Broker. H.B.M.'s Vice-Consul, Arthur C.

Southwell.

BATAVIA, Java. Lat. 6° 7′ 40′′ S; long. 106° 48′ 75" E. Pop. 105, 126. Tr.-I. Opium, petroleum, coals, iron, piece-goods, and provisions of various kinds, &c.; E. Sugar, rice, coffee, spices, hides, arrack, tea, &c. Accn. Usual anchorage for large ships about a mile from pier-head in 5 or 6 fms. No harb., only roads. Vessels discharged and loaded by lighters. See also Tanjong Priok. Official. H. B. M.'s Consul, D, D. Fraser.

BATHURST, Africa. Lat. 13° 28′ N ; long. 16° 34′ W. Pop. 7,000. Tr.-I. Salt, gunpowder, &c.; E. Rice (native), ground nuts, cotton, teak, camwood, palm-oil, gum, beeswax, hides, ivory, gold, tortoiseshell, &c. Accn. D. at entrance 4 to 9ft, at quays 17ft LW., in the channel at LW. is 25ft; anchorage close to the town in 7 to 14fms. There is a Government pier 170ft out, with T end 217ft. Tides rise 5 to 9ft according to

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the season. No docks. Charges. Loading and unloading merchandise / to 2/ per diem, according to paucity or otherwise of labourers. Pilotage. C. for vessels over 100 tons between Bathurst and MacCarthy's Island, in Gambia. Pilotage dues have been superseded by buoyage dues, as follows:-Vessels of and under 20 reg. tons gross, 10s on every entry; over 20 tons and less than 50, 205.; over 50 tons 5s per ft., in and out; mail steamers exempt. Officials. A Navigation and Pilotage Board has been constituted, July, 1894. Harb. Master and Collector of Customs, T. E. Peirce; Tide Surveyor and Wharf Master, S. F. Leigh ; Customs Chief Clerk, S. J. Auber, Gambia, W.C.A.; Lloyd's Agent, H. Goddard.

BATHURST, New Brunswick.

Lat 48 N.; long. 66 W.

Bathurst is situated on the S. coast of Chaleur

Bay, about 62 miles from the entrance. Tr.-E. Deals, timber, and fish. Accn. There are good wharves where vessels drawing 13ft can lie afloat. Vessels of 6ft dft can reach the town at low water, and up to 12't dft at high water. The bar is about 5 miles from the town. The anchorage outside bar is safe for vessels of any size in 5 to 6 fms. Charges. Harbour Master's fee 5cc to $5 according to size of vessel. Sick Mariners' Fund 2c per ton. Pilotage. $1 20c per ton in to the forks of channel, and $1 40c forks to wharf, shifting $4, going out from wharf $1 per ft. Steamers an additional Ic per ton inward. Stevedores 90c to $1 per standard. No harb. dues. Official. Harb. Master, Nazaire

Hockey.

BATH, U.S. Lat. 43° 42′ N; long. 69° 46′ W. Pop. About 7,875. Tr.-I. From abroad, iron, salt, coals, and shipbuilding materials; E. Ice, lumber, hay, and felspar. Accn. The river front is lined with good wharves, and affords every facility for loading and unloading. The water is deep enough to admit the largest vessels. There is a patent slip railway for vessels up to 1,000 tons. Charges. On 1,094 ton vessels £222 155. Pilotage. Vessels drawing less than 15ft 6/3 foot, 15ft to 20ft 8/4 foot, over 20ft 10/5 foot. Towage. According to agreement, generally from £3 to 10.

BATOUM, Russia. Lat. 41° 39′ 19′′ N; long. 41° 37′ 21′′ E. Pop. 30,000. Tr.-I. Iron-tank plates, tin plates, ron pipes, fire-bricks, saltpetre, and empty barrels; E. Petroleum products and manganese. Mail steamers to Odessa. Accn. Harb. has deep water 5 to 10fms close to shore. No docks. En. 300fms. There is a break water for the use of petroleum steamers with 30ft water alongside, where five steamers can load at same time. Steam floating crane belonging to the Russian Steam Nav. and Trading Co. Two cranes, 25 and 50 tons lifting capacity. Ry. Transcaucasian, which connects with harb. LV. 10,000 tons gross. Charges. Tonnage dues 10 cop per ton inwards, and 10 outwards, per new tariff; mooring dues, rub. 20 per vessel, and 50 cop per ft on draught, with rub. 10 to 15 for pilot boat's assistance; quarantine I cop per ton. Pilotage. 2 cop per ton reg.; customs guard So cop per day, mooring in outer harb. Passenger steamers, rub. 10; cargo steamers, rub. 20; no charge for inner harb.; loading and unloading 1 to 1 cop per poud; town dues, I cop per poud. Officials. H.B.M.'s Consul, P. Stevens; Capt. of the Commercial Port, Baron Fitinhoff-Schel; Lloyd's Agents, Fritz Burkhardt & Co.

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Lat. 43° 29' N; BAYONNE, France. long. 1° 28' W. Pop. About 30,000. Tr.-I. Phosphate, pitch, salt fish, coal, grain, iron ore, creosote; E. Props, resin, timber, salt, ores, flour, forged iron, and steel. Accn. Port Bayonne well protected, but at Le Boucau berths exposed to "range" from the bar. D. Varies according to winds and water in river. Vessels drawing from 18 to 25ft can enter according to tides, "ordinary high" to "equinoxial springs." LW. level about 14ft. HW. ordinary springs, 19 to 22ft. W. NW. gales affect the passing the bar. No. 5 sea highest, safe; can enter No. 7 according to water and draught and size of vessel. New steam crane to lift 30 tons. Charges. Port dues: vessels from America with cargo, per reg. ton-Quay Ifr, sanitary 15c, tonnage 8oc, fixed 30c; from Europe with cargo per reg. ton-Quay 50c, sanitary 10c, tonnage Soc, fixed 30c. În ballast, o'05fc per reg. ton, in or out, with cargo 0'30fc per reg. ton out. Brokerage. 50c per ton cargo, grain; 100fc lump sum cargo, coals. Entering (clearing in ballast included): 25c per ton reg. ordinary cargo; 25c per ton reg., ballast. Clearing, Steam25c per ton cargo; 25c per ton reg. in ballast. Chartering: 3 p.c. commission. Loading and discharging by agreement. cranes available at Boucau and Bayonne. Dry dock. Pilotage from the Bar to Boucau or Bayonne.

From Sea to Bar, 101 to 300 t.r., sail 60fcs, steam 30fcs; 301 to 500 t.r., sail gofcs, steam 45tcs; 501 to 1,000 t.r., sail 150fcs, steam 75fcs; 1,001 t: 1,500 t.r., sail 200fcs, steam 100fcs; pilotages between sunset and sunrise, double. Officials.-Commissaire de l'Inscription Maritime, Dudrumel; Capitaine de Port, F. Yribarren; Pilote Major de la Barre, Goalard; H.B.M.'s Vice - Consul, Paul Schoedelin; Lloyd's Agents, Ader & Co.; Ship Brokers, MM. Berho and Lagravere; M. Duverdier.

BAY VERTE, New Brunswick. Lat. 46° N.; long. 64° W. The bay is open to E. winds and is dangerous Accn. Vessels during the winter months. Tr.-E. Timber. can load up to 16ft about 1 miles off Roach Head, and to 20ft about 3 miles off. Charges. Sick Mariners' Fund 2c a ton. No harbour dues; but, if vessels load on the Nova Scotia side, clearance Pilotage. In and out, for a vessel must be effected at Amhurst. of 400 tons, $20. BEAUFORT, S. Carolina, U.S. Lat. 32° 26' N; long. 80° 40′ W. Pop. 7,890. Tr.-I. General merchandise, iron pyrites, and sulphur; E. Lumber, phosphates,

and Sea Island cotton. W. of E. 3 miles. Accn. Port can be entered either by St. Helena or Port Royal. Vessels of 14ft dft can reach the town at LW., and load from 16ft to 20ft at Sea Island Co.'s Docks, or to 27ft at Port Royal Dock, and anchor near town. Vessels of 27ft dít can cross the bar and ascend to within four miles of the town. Charges. $10 on foreign vessels, $5 on coastwise (American). Loading and unloading 20c per ton. Pilotage. See St. Helena Sound. Towage. About 4d to 5d_reg. ton inwards, and 71⁄2d outwards, but ships usually sail in. Officials. U.S. Commisr., Thomas G. White; Br. Vice-Consul, J. E. Kessler. BEIRA. Port of Manica, Moçambique Co.'s territories, and of Mashonaland; at mouths of Pungwe and Busi rivers, terminus of the Beira-Mashonaland Railway. Lat. 19° 50'; long. 34 50. Auth. Portuguese. Tr.-I. Mining machinery, provisions, native barter, and general goods; E. Small quantities indiarubber and beeswax. Accn. En. to harb. 9fms HWST., 6fms LWST. well buoyed. Small dock in course of construction to accommodate vessels of 700 tons. 200 tons per day by lighters; four 4-ton, and one each 3, 5 and 15 ton steam cranes; light iron pier with 22ft at LW. for small vessels. Depth of water 13ft: Rise of ST. 20ft. THW. f. and c. 4h 22m. W. Prev. SE. and E. LV. Manchester Port (about 10,000 tons). Charges. Import and export duties according to general Moçambique tariff. Landing, 10/ per ton; port charge for vessel of 1,000 tons, £18 13s 10d; 500 tons, £7 138 10d. Wharfage, each passenger and animal 1/6, each ton of cargo, 44d. Pilotage. NC. Officials. Port Captain, João dos Santos Jardim; Director of Customs, João Pery de Lind; H.B.M.'s Consul, R. C. F. Greville; Vice Consul, R. B. Miller.

BEIRUT, Syria. Lat. 33° 54′ 27′′ N; long. 35° 29′ 4′′ E. Pop. 120,000. Tr.-I. Manchester goods, iron, rice coal, earthenware, drugs, sugar, coffee, fancy articles, &c.; E. Silk, olive oil, grains, lemons and oranges, &c. Accn. Anchorage: there are three different anchorages at Beirut, viz.: 1st, inside the harb., which has an area of 19 square hectares, depth of anchorage averaging from 25 to 45ft-vessels paying ad per reg. ton for each period of three days; 2nd, outside the harb. but under cover of the break water, where half dues are levied-depth varying from 40 to 100 fms., entrance, 48ft ; 3rd, outside the harb, with depth of 100 fms. and upwards. Ships in the latter anchorage are exposed to NW. winds. Charges. d on each reg. ton for each three days, and IIS. for discharging alongside quay each day, and Is per ton into lighters which contain only a few tons, and goods from which when landed on quay are subject to de lay. Officials. H.B.M.'s ConsulGeneral, R. Drummond Hay, C.M.G.; Vice Consul, French Harb. Master, and a Turkish Captain of Port. BELIZE, British Honduras. Lat. 17° 29' 20" N; long. 88° 11'53" W; this is the lat. and long. of Fort George on the N. side of the entrance to the river. Pop. of colony about 37,479. Auth. Coll. of Customs and Harb. Master. Tr.I. Chiefly breadstuffs, cotton manufactures, and hard-wares ; E. Cedar, mahogany, rosewood, logwood, sarsaparilla, cocoanuts, deer skins, tortoiseshells, sugar, bananas, plantains, oranges, Avocado pears, pine-apples, limes, mangoes, and specie. Accn. The harb, has from 24 to 4 fms of water, with the exception of one patch of 3 fms in the middle of the basin. The town of Belize stands on both sides of the mouth of the river. Charges.

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Light dues 12c ton. Reg. maximum $125. Tariff as schedule. Pilotage. $2.50 ft dft. Officials. Coll. of Customs, W. J. McKinney, C.M.G.; Lloyd's Agen s, Belize Estate and Produce Company, Ltd.

BENGAZI, N. Africa. Lat. 36° 6′ 51′′ N; long. 20° 2′ 25′′ E. Pop. Over 21,000. Tr.-I. Cotton, woollen, silken, and other manufactures, coal, iron, firearms, sugar, boards, spirits, wines, tobacco, oil, skins, petroleum, &c. E. Barley, wheat, cattle, wool, butter, eggs, skins, madder, salt, sheep, ivory, ostrich feathers, sponges. Accn. No vessel drawing over 6ft can enter. D. From 1 to 8ft. W. of E. from 400 to 600 yards. Charges. Sanitary dues id per ton; lighthouse Id per ton; labourage crew of barges Iod to 1/8; landing stage dues id to 5d, according to size of parcels or bales. Pilotage. 15 to 30, according to size. Official. H.B. M.'s Consul, J. H. Monahan.

BENGUELA, Africa. Lat. 12° 33′ 54′′ S; long. 13° 25′ 9′′ E. Pop. About 3,000. Tr.--Very little done here. E. Rubber, wax, and hides. Accn. The anchorage, about a mile from town, in 4 to 6fms, is exposed to all winds. Two Portuguese steamers per month. See also St. Paul de Loanda.

BENICARLO, Spain. Lat. 40° 28′ N ; long. 0° 25 E. Tr.— I. Hardware and manufactured goods; E. Wine, fruit, &c. A fine roadstead of any depth of water. Charges. Light dues 24d per ton. Tonnage 1 to 2/.

BENIN, Africa. Lat. 5° 46′ 1′′ N ; long. 5° 3′ 5′′ E. Tr.I. Tobacco, spirits, cotton goods, and sundries; E. Palm-oil, palm kernels, rubber, and timber. Accn. D. On actual bar 9ft to 13ft, and in the channel 12ft NT, and 17ft ST by creeks. Vessels drawing 17ft. can ascend river to Sapele. Official. H.B.M.'s Vice-Consul, R. F. Locke, and Deputy-Commissioner for the Western Division of Niger Coast Protectorate.; Lloyd's Agent, J. E. Dickinson.

long. 1° 20' E. Accn. A newly Workshop for reD. at En. 28ft.

BENI SAF, Algeria. Lat. 35° 19' 8" N; Pop. 5.400. Tr.-E. Iron ore. constructed commodious harbour of 45 acres. pairing ships of all kinds, but on a small scale. Charges. None. Pilotage. £1, in and out. BERBICE, British Guiana. Lat. 6° 20' N Pop. 8,903. Tr. - E. Hides, sugar, rum, cocoa nuts, balatto, &c.. Accn. D. on bar at HW. 15ft, and 6ft LW.; the rise and fall of ST. are 10ft, and 9ft NT. No docks. Charges, &c., see Georgetown.

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long. 57° 30 W. cotton, timber,

BERDIANSK (Taganrog), Russia. Lat. 46° 38′ 18′′ N; long. 36° 47' 40" E. Pop. 30,000. Tr.-E. Wheat, barley, linseed, hemp, wool, and skins. Accn. Usual anchorage 2 miles S. W. of town. Breakwater constructed in 14ft of water, extending 1,073yds from shore. D. in harbour from 6ft to 1oft, according to wind. A new port is finished, with 14ft water. Charges. On a steamer of 1,000 tons loading from 12 to 15,000 chetwerts, including labourers, &c., about £65.

BERGEN, Norway. Lat. 60° 24′ N; long. 5° 17' E. Pop 73,000. THW. f. and c 1h 30m ; OS. rise 4ft. Tr.I. Grain, salt, iron and coal, hardware, coffee, sugar, wines, spirits ;