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are shipped from Valparaiso to the United States.

The Chilian wool is capable of considerable improvement.

Argentine Republic, Buenos Ayres, Cordova, Entre Rios, Santiago.

Buenos Ayres wools are chiefly short-woolled shipped in the grease. Entre Rios and Santiago, course wools. Cordova is a carpet wool, and from its length capable of great improvement.

Republic of the Uruguay or Band Oriental.
Chief Town, Monte Video.

The wool from this quarter chiefly consists of fine short stapled.

New Zealand.

Large supplies of this Wool have already come to England, and we believe the country is peculiarly adapted to produce the long Combing Wools required, from its soil and climate; and an unlimited market is open here for such wools.

Australia.

The Wools from this Colony form a large article of export. They are generally of a finer character than those of the other countries referred to, and for certain purposes are exceedingly valuable.

The Bradford Chamber of Commerce,
Bradford, May 13, 1861.

Sir,—The very inadequate supply of wool required for the trade of this district has led to the formation of an Association, in connection with the Chamber, for the purpose of disseminating suggestions, for circulation in wool-growing countries, not only as to the increase in the supply of the raw material, but as to its improvement in quality.

I have been for some time in communication with Her Majesty’s Government on this subject, and have received from the Board of Trade most kind and valuable offers of assistance.

Samples of wool required in this district, together with suggestions as to its growth and improvement, will be sent out by the Board of Trade, the India Board, and by the Colonial Office, to the various Consuls and Vice-Consuls representing Her Majesty in foreign countries.

I have also obtained permission from the Board of Trade to address you, and to beg that you will have the kindness to give your assistance in promoting the objects of the Wool Supply Association, and this will, I believe, be best done by placing the samples in the hands of parties interested in the growth of wool, and by extensively disseminating the remarks where English is spoken, and by carefully translating the document into the language of the country where you may deem it proper to promulgate the views of the Association, in accordance with the instructions—

• By Kempy Wool is meant the presence of short white hairs at the roots of the staple which never take the dye, and disfigure all goods into which they are introduced.

His Excellency Gov. T. Gore Browne,
New Zealand.

Henry W. Rumsey,
President.

John Dartnall,
Secretary.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Hobart Town, 20th August, 1861.
LIGHTHOUSE, CAPE WICKHAM, KING’S ISLAND, TASMANIA.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a Circular Stone Tower, One hundred and forty-five feet high, and painted white, has been erected for a Light-house on the hill near Cape Wickham, at the north end of King’s Island, in Bass’s Straits, and from which a fixed White Light will be exhibited on and after the first day of November next.

The light is of a first-class Catadioptric description, at an elevation of Two hundred and eighty feet above the level of the sea, and, in clear weather, will be visible from the deck of a vessel about eight leagues on an arc of the horizon to seaward from S.S.W. half-W. round the compass northerly to E.S.E.

The attention of Mariners is also earnestly called to the following extract from the Report of the Light-house Commissioners appointed by the Governments of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania:—

"In advising the erection of a Light-house on this Island, the Commissioners wish to guard themselves from affording the public any reasonable supposition that this Light can be at all considered in the position of a great Highway Light for the navigation of the Straits. The south coast of New Holland, at the western entrance of Bass’s Straits, being free from danger, affords, in their opinion, the safest shore for the prudent mariner to approach; and they conceive that the Light on King’s Island is easily to be regarded as a Beacon for warning navigators of danger, rather than as a leading Light to a great thoroughfare."

The bearings following were taken in 1855, by Commodore Ross, R.N., from the site of the Light-house:—

Western extremity of Harbinger Reef, N. 69 deg. W.; distance, 4 ½ miles.

Eastern extremity, N. 54½ deg. W.; distance, 4 miles.

Navarino Shoal, N. 34½ deg. E.; distance, 2 ½ miles.

Southern extremity of New Year’s Island, S. 39 deg. W.; distance, 6 miles.

Northern ditto, S. 49½ deg. W.; distance, 7½ miles.

The bearings are magnetic: variation, 10 deg. east.

C. M. MAXWELL,
Chairman Marine Board.

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