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- CHA*AUTM AND IMPUTATION.

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The: Docks; consist of the Prince of Wales Dock, the North Dock, and the South Dock each equipped with modern appliancepfor the rapid loading and up- loading: of vessels. The Entrance Channel to the Hatoour is lighted by means of GetS Buoys The New Kind's DOCK: capaUe of accommodating the largest vessels afica is expected to be opened for traffic* this year. The^Quays are 19,000 feet in longkb The Warehouses 'jOiiein a floor area of 288,000 square feqt. The Railways of the Tru&t have direct coonecuious with the Great Western, Londoii and North Wcg,(rr,, Midlard, and Rboudda and Swansea Bpy Railways. There are 2fi Coal TiQS" and SO HydraMfic, steam and Hand Cranes. I! Swansea is the Cc-ntre.of the Antbiacice Coal district. There are morp Patent^ Fuel Works in Swansea than at any other pori in the K.'ngciom and the Fuel is held in high repute in Cout/nentall^and other C. marker. There is a Large Area:of Land available for Fuel Works, Creosote Works Saw Mills and ofcher commercial purposes.rf 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 Rosario, Montevideo, Buenos Ayres, Ports in Chili and Peru, St. Petersburg, Hamburg Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Treport, Rouen, Nantes, Bordeaux, Oporto, Lisbon, Setubal, Barcelona, Genoa, Leghorn, Venice, Trieste, Fiume, ports in Greece, Constantinople and other Turkish ports Gakfcz, Ibrail, Odessa, Batoum, -.Alexandria &c. Within the Harbour are Nine Graving Docks. Extensive provision has been made for the Fish Trade, in the South Deck. The Swansea Fleet now numbers about 80 Steam Trawlers in addition to Liners and Smacks. Pilotage.-The Trust6es are the Pilotage Authority. Pilotage is Dorcom- pulsory, both inward and outwards. Rates and Charges.I—are moderate. The Mumbles Lighthouse Signal Station is worked by the Trustees. Vessels calling for orders can comaiacica.e w th their Owners without lowering a boa«—good and sheltered free anchorage being found unaer 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.^ n For information on, any point ^connected yitla the Port and Harbour, apply :to- ^WILLIAM LAW, General Manager Rjegigt red Addressgfor Telegrams- ''LAW§'H SWANSEA. m