The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-21 00:00:00

such a motion, and was requested to have it drawn up.
[lt will be fbund at the close of our report.]
The proceedings were then confirmed.
NIISCELLANtOUS.

The proceedings of the Warehouse Committee were
next read. From these it appeared that two lucifer
matches had been found amongst some loose coir yarn,
as it was being landed from a vessel; and that a whole
box of lucifer matches. had been thrust into a bale of
cotton discharged from another ship.
On the motion of Mr. Hnbback, seconded by Mr.
Arnold, the proceedings were confirmed.
The proceedings of the Marine Committee were then
read. From these it appeared that a wilful obstruction
to the line of telegraph between the Great Ormahead
and Voel Nant had been found, and that the matter is
under investigation.
A letter from the Trinity Board was read, giving the
sanction of the elder brethren of that corporation to the
proposed alteration of buoys in Hilbre Wash, &c., ren-
dered necessary or advisable by the alterations in the
Channel, as stated in the report of the marine surveyor
last week. It appeared that Lieutenant Parks had
been up in London to make the necessary explanations
on the subject.
The proceedings were confirmed, as were also those
of the Pilotage Committee.
It appeared from the proceedings of the Committee of
Management of the Docks and Quays, that a claim for
damage having been sent in for injuries sustained by the
Ocean Bride, by being grounded in the Toxteth Dock,
an inspection and report upon the subject had been
ordered. —The Engineer had reported that in six weeks
it would be necessary to take down the shed on the east
quay of the Huskisson Dock, and recommended its re-
erection .at the Queen's Dock.—It Was recommended
that the necessary notice should be given for running
dry the Canning hock and half-tide ll'E;ein, after evening
tide on the 11th of October.
Mr. Boult haying racied the confirmation of the
proceedings,
The CHAIRMAN said, with reference to working the
engines of steamers in dock, he had been requested to
say that the engineer did not object to their being
worked at the same speed as the Ulster's had been •in
the Sandon Dock ; or to the speed of ten or twelve
strokes per minute in the Canada and Huskisson Docks.
Mr. FaRTLFX—There can be no possible objection in
the locks; if they can be spared,becau2e there is no mui"
there.

Mr. TOBIN said it, WAS satisfactory to know that it.
would be allowed in any place where the engineer could
certicy that. 4 could be done without injury, for it was of
great importance that such facilities should be given.
The proceedings were then confirmed, as were- also
those of the Master Porterage Committee.
A long letter was read from Mr. Wawa, Ilowe,
'suggesting the advantage of tha elevator system in
working cargoes of cont, as a means of giving those
facilities so iitgetatly demanded by the cow tradvs and
relieving he cock and quay space. It could be applied
with little expense to the existing warehouses; and the
writer entered into calculations to show the superior
economy of such a scheme, as contnisted with the em-
ploitnent of manual labour.

Al* HVIIBA.OK observed that it was quite impossible
to apply it to their present warehouses : . 13,nt the letter
was referred to the Warehouse Committee.
Mr. Momom.'s notice of motion was then read as
follows:—" That it be referred to the Finance Com-
mittee to consider tb,e propriety of erecting some memo-
rial or testirnonia -to. the memory. of the late Jesse
Hartley., who, so, long. and ably perfomod his duties as
engineer. to, the dock estete."
• In answer to a questioa by Mr. Derbyshire,
Mr. 11....un0t.N stated that there was no great difficulty
now in getting masons for the dock works in progress.
This Was the whole of the public business.