The Swansea Gazette and Daily Shipping Register

Swansea Harbour OPFtCiSRS- General Manager, Stacaioiy l>at- t boar M aster, and Co.'Ucstor V W. LAW of Rates J Assistant Collector of Rates—GEO. JONES Wharfir.srar— M. R. MORGAN. Traffic Supenntendent-H. T. KANDELL. Telegrams, LAW, SWANSEA." Telephone— Barbour Office Corporation 13 iJock Master, Jiortb Dock 583 South Dock „ 581 Prince of Wales DOCR: „ 590 tumbles Lighthouse. 136

South Dock. Dock Master D. EVANS, R.N.R. Congress s 697 Dabbert Rouen Dorotby s yt Boardman sea Hetty 90 AndiewaBantry Hero (yt) Bond, sea Hannah Croasdell 141, Holt, Chatham Lydia Cardell 170 Tyrrell, Preston Linn O'Dee s 282 Bie, Treport Marie Celine 75, Wale?, Penryn Normandy p,s 261, Combe Osprey (yt) Parsons, Barry Stucley 32 Found, Bude Union 113 Le Huce, Vannes Vivian (yt) Shea, Port Talbot William >t L, Granham, s<» ARRIVED January 19 p.m Annan s 468, Whyte, Barry January 20 a.m Velocity e 62, Bullock, Bristol G Player s 242, George, Caen SAILED Jan 19 p.m Pauline. 88 Coyec, Quimper Denis Papin 98 Leroy, Sables Saga 106 Olsen, Melilla Audaciense 100 Roulet St Valery Jessie 90 Gill, Treport Regina 41, Rus an, Milford Annetta Marie 91 Evrard, La Rochelle Invicta 73 Jewell, Plymouth Jan 20 a.m Cedric s 678, Paulsen. Penarth < Prestonian s 367, Cogley, Liverpool Nanine Aghe 167, Coheleac, Redon Rival 100, Lamey, Falmouth Iron King 43 Ashford, Killorglin Arsene 147 Pendu, Pojnic Jeanne 75 Le Guinnie, La Rochelle

Prince of Wales Dock Dock Master T. GREEN. .1 Algerie s 1535, DieryeKx, Antwerp Betty Russell lv2, Owen, London Chatfield s 1904, Hunt, Port Nolloth Cheriton s 685, George, PomaroD Duchess of York s 1648. Storm, Antwerp Dunsley s 1254, Roper, Bordeaux Eppleton s -575, Evans, Grimsby Elakoon 605, Gronross, Risor Gracie « 668, Nordberg, Grimsby Ho'land s 2438, Prentis, Dunkirk Llandaff City s 1196. Fitt, urstol Phonix s 1276, Larsen, Tilt Cove Rotherheld 8 1843 Farrant Port Nolloth Tudor s 670, Higgins, Rouen Trafalgar s 996, Samuel Rivadeo Ville de Eu s 305, Cook, Treport ARRIVED. January 19 p.m. Ed Greig s 597, Gregereen, La Pallice Kursk s 692, Commeseo, London St PatricK s 245, iVJcMillan, Rouen Jan 20 a.m Start s 341, Olsen, Rouen Bishop Rock s 146. Candlish, St Malo Apolla s III2, Poole, Antwerp City of Liverpool ? 657, Tyrrell Bristol Astillro s 864, Troon Gransha s 486, Roberts, Rouen SAILED Jan 19 p.m Stella s 761. Aberg, Uddevalla Hero s 1164, Athert, n, Antwerp Hero s 667, ^adstrand, Rochefort Lizzie 65, Nicholas, Watchet Pacquale P s 1702, Cippero, Genoa January 20 a.m Glynn s 412, McKinty, Ronen Abertawe s 815, Light, La Rochelle St Patrick s 245, McMillan, Rouen

Vessels in River. -0- Kildare s 1649, Davidson, Aidrosfian Attt-rtawe, dredger, Pa lewn Lynx (tug boat) sea Tauruss barge 30. Wilfon, Milford Kings Lynn s 336 Bee, London Pioneer 29 Williams, Newquay

Fish Maricetr Argon s tr sea Manorbier Castle s tr sea Simpiott s tr sea > Mount V]so s tr sea Reginald s tr sea Swansea Castle s tr sea » Louise s tr sea Hercules s tr sea Caswell s tr 95 sea A.KRiVEl Izaak Walton s tr dAILEO Marion s tr sea

G raving Docks. "J\1HR\AN DRY DcK-No. l. City of Frankfort s 520 Peterson, Dublin CAMBRIAN DRY DOCK— NO^. CAA PTUAN GlUJJtRON C' jvibal Dry Dock Cervin s 1173, Park, Dunkirk CENTRAl, HAfiE Ermiiiie s 1251 L&wis, Vigo JERSEY DRY DOCK. JERSEY HARD VILLIKKS DRY DOCX GIORE DRY DOCK. Prince OF WALES Dry OOCft. Phoenix D :y Dock Swansea Mercantile DRY DOCKf

» A scientist asserts that the ninth day of the moon is tho most rainy of the wholo twenty- ei?ht, and four o'clock in the afternoon tb« ] •mniest hour of the day. The Cherokee form of marriage is simplicity Itself. The bride and groom merely clasp hande over running water, and this emblematic of'their future flowing on freely and happily. Of British flowers only 11 per oent. have a perfume. Usually the odour is pleasant, but in tome cases it is objectionable, and even harmful. The total result of an examination of school- children in Germany shewed that 90 per cent of all the teeth examined were defective; only 35 out of 1,020 children hMt sound sets of teeth. In 396 children a poor bodilj constitution was diM v poor teeth.

TIDE TABLE FOR JANUARY filGH WATER. = TIME. | HEIGHT ON CILLS. eek P of W ales 1 South l,ayh- and N Dock M ock A.M. I P.M. A.M. | P.M. A.M. "1 A7]M. P.M. IF I F I r 1 l! Friday 0 50 1 24 (26 0 26 8 2» (j 'iSattirdy. *■ 55 2 '17 1-6 5 27 6 28 5 3 Sunday. 3 0 3 -9 2/ 4 ^8 5 29 4 4 Mondav, 4 2 4 29 u8 5 29 3 30 6 5 Tuesday 5 2 5 25 N9 2 29 9 31 2 6 Weduesdy.. 5 55 6 12 ¡:?9, 8 30 0 31 8 71Thursday.. 640 6 55 j»>0 0 30 1 32 0 81 Friday 7 21 7 33 ^0 0 29 9 32 0 9 Saturday.. 7 57 8 9 -9 S 29 1 31 8 10l Sunday 8 29 8 42 29 0 28 4 31 U lllMonda 9 3 9 16 28 4 27 8 30 4 l2j Tuefday. 9 35 9 50 27 8 2H 9 -9 8 13 W ednes.10 10 10 28 26 10 26 8 28 lo 14] Thursdy. 10 49 U 12 -5 9 24 8 27 9 IS!Friday 11 37 -4 11 11 16 Satnrday. 0 4 0 35 2o 11 24 6 ^5 11 17 Sunday. 18 1 39 23 11 24 10 2o 11 B Monday 2 15 45 24 9 26 0 2« 9 19 Tuesday. 3 21 3 47 (26 5 27 8 28 5 20 Wednes, 4 2J 4 47 28 3 29 4 30 3 2t Thursday., 5 22 5 43 3u 0 30 9 32 u ^2 Friday.. 6 15 6 35 31 5 ;32 0 33 5 23 Saturday.. 7 5 7 25 32 9 32 9 34 9 21 Sunday.7 52 8 10 33 3 ,32 9^3 25 Monaay 8 35 8 56 32 10 :32 0 34 10 26 Tuesday. 9 21 9 42 32 1 (30 ll 34 1 27 Wednesday 10 6 10 26 10 29 5 32 10 28 Thursday.. 10 48 11 13 j-» 1 .27 4 31 1 .v 29 Friday Tl 40 ,-7 2 29 2 30 Saturday j 0 10 0 43 8 |25 9 zl 8 i: 31 Sunday 1 19 1 54 24 10 .25 5 2o 10j | j | The height of Tide up the river at the Pottery bl idge is 13 feet less, and at Hafod Works & Middlebank 16 feef 6 inches less than on the Cill at the North Dock Half-tide Basin.„

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THE I* + DENMATlONS Of FREEDCX. "As I emerged from the head I floated op and down and laterally hxe a 80" p-bubblt attached to the bowl of a pipe, until I at iaflf broke looee from the body und fell'lightly to the floor, where I slowly rose and expanded into the full stature of a man. I seemed to be tra- hteent, of a bluish cast, and perfectly naked. With a painful senso of embarrassment I flod e toward the partially open door to escape th. •ym of the two ladies whom I was facing as wel IS others whom I knew were about me, but upoa ■•aching the door I found myself clothed, aad fatiflfied upon that point I turned and faced tha tompany." He saw the mourners round hia corpse, and Iried in vain to make them realise his presenot Ha marvelled tha.t he felt eo wonderfully waVj be passed out of d.)ors and travelled swiftly through the air. But he did not pass into tbil siber world.

HOW HA Came Bacz. flirw prodigious roch. blocked his path. fill low had not, yet come. He became unconscious again,, and when be Was lying in his bed he awoke to oonociousnsaP and soon recovered. He wrote out this narrative •ight weeks after his strange experience, buv toad it to those at the bedside as soon as h« » med. The doctor, who was at the bedside. IIØd that the breath was absoiuleiy extinct at far as oould be observed, and every oymptOBi WUtrking the patient as dead was present. "J mpposed at one time that he waa actually dead (to fully as ever I supposed anvone to b.' aewiq