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RHONDDA & SWANSEA BAY RAILWAY.

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The: Docks:consist of the Prince of Wales Dock, the North Deck, and the South Dock each equipped with modern appliance? for the rapid loading and up- loading: of vessels. The Entrance Channel to the Haebour is lighted by means of Gas Buoys The New King's DOC.K capalie of accommodating the largest vessels afloa is expected to be opened for traffic. this year. The.Quays are 19,000 feet in length The Warehouses contain a floor area of 283,000 square feet. The Railways of the Trust have direct connections with the Great Western, London aDd North Western, Midland, and Rbondda and Swansea Bay Railways. There aid 26 Coal Tips, and f.10 Hydraulic, steam and Hand Cranes. Swansea Is the Csntrellof the Anthracite Coal district, There are more Patents Fuel Works in Swansea than at any other port in the Kingdom and the Fuel is held in high repute in Continental^and other markets. There is a Lar^e Arealof Land available for Fuel Works, Creosote Works Saw Mills and other commercial purposes Lines of Steamers run between Swansea and the following ports, viz. New York, Baltimore Philadelphia, Singa- pore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, Nagasaki Hiogo, Java ports, Rio de Janerio, Santas Kosario, Montevideo, Buenos Ayres, Ports in Chili and Peru, St. Petersburg, Bamburg Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Treport, Rouen, Nantes, Bordeaux, Oporto, Lisbon, Setubal, Barcelona, Genoa, Leghorn, Venice, Trieste, Fiume, ports in Greece, Constantinople and other Turkish ports Galatz, Ibrail, Odessa, Batoum, ^Alexandria &c. Within the Harbour are Nine Graving Docks. Extensive provision has been made for the Fish Trade, in the South Dock, The Swansea Fleet now numbers about 80 Steam Trawlers in addition to Liners and Smacks. Piiot&g&r—The Trustees are the PjloíiRge Authority, Pilotage is xjoneons- pu 1sor) ¡ both inward and outwards. Rates and Charges^—are moderate. The Mumbles L'ghihouse Signal Station ) is worked by the Trustees. Vessels calling for ordecs can cow with their Owners wlihoiH lowering a boat—good and sheltered free anchorage being found unuer the Mumbles head at any state of the tide The Trustees have erected on the Mumbles Head a Reed Fog Horn Signal giving three blasts of about two seconds' duration in quick succession every two minutes.^ S For information on any point^connected with the Port and Harbour,^apply :to- WILLIAM LAW, General Manager R egist red Addressjor Telegrams— LAW SWANSEA.