COAL CARGOES.

Evening Star, Issue 11278, 27 June 1900, Page 3

COAL CARGOES.

Press Association-By Telegraph— Copyright. SYDNEF, June 27. (Received June 27, at 9.20 a.m.) The report of the Royal Commission appointed to conduct experiments in the spontaneous combustion of coal cargoes shows that these are less liable to combustion when loaded wet than dry, though the chance of a dry cargo becoming heated during a voyage of eighty days in ordinary weather is almost vanishingly remote. ■, It recommends that when large ships are coaling in hot weather water be played down the hatchway to wet the small coal which collects there, and becomes the seat of fire. .. . At the Hanover street Mutual Improvement Sooiety's weekly meeting on Mondav evening (Mr J. Williams, in the chair) essays on the' Life of Sir A. Milner' and «The Effect of the Transvaal War udod Nw Zealand' were read by Messrs G Hercus and J. Sligo respectively. Toe next meeting of the society is to take the form of a " parliam -ntary evening," when a Bi.-l in favor of the admission of women into Parliament will bVdi&oussed. Her Majesty once'remarked thai a. certain tana of boots were misnamed, as no one could find a pair of Wellingtons. 'And no one caa find tobacco to equal Galdaa E&fe.— £Advt ]