GOOD HOPE, EAST AND WEST COAST SOUTH AMERICA, Buenos Ayres Caldera Callao 10250 Cape Coast Castle ...4150 Sierra Leone Cape of Good Hope 6345 Cape Horn.... Boston, U.S.A. .6620 Hobart Town.........11560 Arica .4185 Melbourne .......... 11530 1740 Natal .4785 New Orleans -3335 Panama 4450 Pernambuco.... 3310 Quebec .6560 Rio Janeiro 11630 Boston, U.S.A .......3030 ..4410 Buenos Ayres .........6280 .3210 Caldera 6050 Cape Coast Castle...3870 San Francisco.......13950 Cape of Good Hope 6065 St. John's, N.F.......2485 .7680 St. Vincent (Atlan). 2805 ....4470 Antigua.. 3830 .9735 13610 Ascension ·3905 ..4490 Auckland, N.Z. 12120 Azores 1460 6450 Bahia .7090 Barbadoes. .4505 .3805 4970 Belize... .4570 3525 Bermuda .12450 Bonny -3055 4170 5480 Callao. 9210 .....9970 Fiji Islands............12000 Acapulco... Guayaquil ............10950 Adelaide ........... .8745 Havana... 12070 Halifax, N.S..........2685 .4190 BRITISH NAVAL SERVICE. Amount Estimated for 1886-87 (gross), £13,650,626. (Expended in 1884-85, £11,625,809, voted in 1885-86, £12,694,900.) ADMIRALTY OFFICE (£203,400). Whitehall. Hours 11 to 5. NAVAL DEPARTMENT. LORDS COMMISSIONERS (15,900). FIRST LORD, Right Hon. Lord G. F. Hamilton, M.P. (with house), £4,500. ASSISTANT SECRETARY AND PRINCIPAL CLERK, Richard D. Awdry, £1,200. CONTROLLER OF NAVY, Vice-Admiral W. Graham, C.B. £2,293. DIRECTOR OF NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, W. H. White, £2,000. DIRECTOR OF VICTUALLING DEPARTMENT, Henry F. R. Yorke, £800. DIRECTOR OF Navy Contracts, John Collett, £1,200. MEDICAL DIRECTOR-GENERAL, Sir John W. Reid, K.C.B., M D. £1,300. ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL AND COMPTROLLER NAVY PAY, Sir Gerald FitzGerald, K.C.M.G., £1,500. DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTS, Vice-Admiral Sir Francis William Sullivan, K.C.B., £1,593. DIRECTOR OF WORKS, Colonel Percy G. L. Smith, R.E., £1,300. HYDROGRAPHER, Captain William J. L. Wharton, £1,264. SUPERINTENDENT OF NAVAL RESERVES, Rear-Admiral John Kennedy E. Baird, £1,596. THE BOARD OF TRADE. ORGANISATION AND DIVISION OF LABOUR. IN the Civil Service, the Board of Trade, over which Sir Michael Hicks Beach at present presides, is usually termed the "Big Board," more because of the numerous matters dealt with by the Board than from the large number of membersnominal for the most part-of which it really consists. The Board practically consists of the president, the permanent secretary (Mr. H. G. Calcraft, C.B.), and an assistant secretary attached to the Marine Department, Finance Department, Harbour Department, Railway Department, Statistical Department, and Fisheries Department respectively. Marine Department. (Assistant Secretary, Mr. THOS. GRAY, C.B.) SUBJECTS.-Admiralty Courts. Albert Medal. Chains, Cables, and Anchors Act. Crew Spaces. Discipline. Distressed Seamen, Relief of (Rules and Principles). Examinations of Masters, Mates, and Engineers. International Code of Signals. International Questions concerning Shipping. Life-Saving Apparatus. Lights and Fog Signals. Lime and Lemon Juice, and Anti-Scorbutics. Medical Scale for Merchant Ships. Mercantile Marine Offices and Local Marine Boards. Misconduct, Inquiries into. Naval Reserve. Passenger Ships, Survey of. Rewards for Saving Life. Tonnage, Measurement of. Training Ships. Unseaworthy Ships. Wrecks and Casualties, Inquiries into. Wreck Register. Finance Department. (Assistant Secretary, Mr. ALLEN STONEHAM.) SUBJECTS.-Accounts and Estimates of all Departments of the Board of Trade. Accounts of Lighthouse Boards. Accounts of Consuls and Colonial Shipping Masters, including Accounts of Relief of Distressed Seamen. Accounts of Superintendents and Receivers of Wreck. Claims on Owners of Vessels. Greenwich Sixpences Fund. Life Assurance Companies Returns. Merchant Seamen's Fund (Pensioners'). Money Orders. Pensions. Greenwich Hospital Fund. Seamen's Savings Banks. Seamen's Temporary Deposit Bank (Liverpool). Wages and Effects of Deceased Seamen. Harbour Department. (Assistant Secretary, Mr. CECIL TREVOR, C.B.) SUBJECTS.-Average. Explosives Act. Fisheries. Foreshores. Freight. Harbours. Liability of Shipowners. Lighthouses and fixed Fog-signals. Loans to Harbour Authorities. Local Charges on Shipping. Pilotage. Protection of Navigable Channels, Ports, &c. Provisional Orders, Piers and Harbours. Provisional Orders, Oyster and Mussel Fisheries. Quarantine. Registration of Ships. Standards. Suez Canal. Tidal Waters, Wreck and Salvage. Railway Department. (Assistant Secretary, Mr. E. COURTENAY BOYLE, C.B.) SUBJECTS.-Alkali Act. Art Unions. Charters. Copyright and Trade Marks. Gas Companies. Industrial Exhibitions Act. Joint Stock Companies. Partnerships. Railways. Registry of Designs. Telegraphs and Electric Lighting. Statistical or Commercial Department. (Assistant Secretary, Mr. R. GIFFEN.) SUBJECTS.-Statistics generally, and Corn Returns. Fisheries Department. (Assistant Secretary, Mr. GEO. J. SWANSTON, C.B.) SUBJECTS.-Administration of Merchant Shipping (Fishing Boats) Act, 1883, &c., and other matters relating to the Sea Fishing Service. |