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Do 41 per Cent 1950
DI 4i per Cent., 1860
D.l 3 per Cent., 1859 541
D 7 5 per Cent~ 1862
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Do dc, 1868
Turkish 6 per Cent
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Do 6 per Cent. 1864 - —
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Dividends on the above payable in London.
Elustrtau e per Cent Ex 10 Florins
Belgian 4+ per cent., Ex. 2sf.
Dutch ril per Cant. Ex. 12 Guil„ 561
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .....
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Italian 5 per ent. 1831, E. 25f 541
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CLOSING PRICES.
Consots, Money
Do. Account, May 4 93i

THE COMPULSORY PILOTAGE ABOLITION

BILL.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY.

The Select Committee of the House of Commons again
resumed its inquiry into the expediency of abolishing
compulsory pilotage. Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Vice-President
of the Board of Trade, again presided.
Sir Frederic Heron, deputy master of the Trinity
House, continued his evidence. He said he
did not think the abolition of compulsory pilotage
would lessen the number of pilots, because the exigencies
of navigation would compel shipowners to take them.
Under any circumstances, there must be a licensed
corps of pilots ; none other should be allowed
to navigate vessels. There should be a regula-
tion price between pilot and shipowner; and there
should also be power to limit the number of pilots. There
would always be plenty of men ready to undertake the
duties of a licensed pilot, and this fact would keep the
licensed pilots up to the mark of efficiency. At present
the charges for winter and summer season were alike,
but he thought they should be greater in the winter than
the summer, because of the greater hardships
which had to be undegone in the former season.
As to compensation to pilots, in districts like
the Thames and Mersey there would be no compensation
for loss of business, but in some of the outports easy of
access there might be more' pilots than were actually re-
quired, and these wouldbe entitledto compensation. Then,
in such a case as the Mersey, where the pilots had boats of
their own some compensation would have to be given them.
It might be that a shipowner might send a badly found
ship to sea without a pilot. He admitted that there were
many losses from badly found ships ; but he did not
think the tendency of shipowners would be given an im-
pulse to in this direction.
The committee adjourned.