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Telephone, 33 Hamilton 

 Night Call, 411 Hamilton 



Cable Address: 

 'Abiworks," New York 



Atlantic Basin Iron Works 



Engineers and Boiler Makers 



Machinists, Plumbers, Tinsmiths, Pipe Fitters, Blacksmiths, Coppersmiths, Pattern 

 Makers, Sheet Iron Workers, Iron and Brass Castings. Steamship Repairs a Specialty. 



Corner Imlay and Summit Streets 



Brooklyn, N. Y. 



John Munro& Son 



Steamship and 

 Engineers* Supplies 



722 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Cable Address: Kunomale, New York 

 Telephone, 2492 South 



Telephone 

 215 Hamilton 



Box 186 

 Maritime Exchange 



YULE & MUNRO 



SHIPWRIGHTS 



Caulkers, Spar Makers 



Boat Builders, Etc. 



No. 9 SUMMIT STREET 

 Near Atlantic Dock BROOKLYN 



New Books, Magazines, etc.. Received 



EI AgricuUor Practico, revista bi-mensual 

 ilustrada de agricultura tropical practica y 

 sus industrias anexas. Publicado bajo los 

 auspicios del Consejo Provincial de Oriente. 



The Pliilippiue Agricultural Rcz'iciv for 

 July — the horticultural number — has been 

 received. This magazine is printed in 

 Manila by the Department of Public In- 

 struction. A very full and informing ar- 

 ticle on the banana, covering many pages 

 of the publication is a feature of this num- 

 ber. Some interesting illustrations are 

 given. 



The July issue of the Pan-American 

 Union Bulletin contains a very informing 

 article on Secretary Knox's visit to the 

 Latin-American countries. 



Bulletin of the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Intelligence and Plant Diseases — Inter- 

 national Institute of Agriculture, Rome, 

 Italy, July, 1912. The International Insti- 

 tute of Agriculture was founded by act of 

 the International Convention of June 7, 

 1905, to which forty governments were 

 signatories. Ten others have since adhered, 

 so that almost the whole civilized world, 

 including the colonies, belongs to it. 



Bullcti)i Agricole du Congo Beige — 

 Bruxelles, June, 1913. Published quarterly 

 under the supervision of the director-gen- 

 eral of agriculture. Fully and handsomely 

 illustrated. 



Tlie ]Vest India Committee Circular of 

 London for Jul\- 30, 1912. 



Mr. Leon Hippeau is the new French con- 

 sul appointed to succeed M. Bryois at San- 

 tiago de Cuba. He is an experienced official 

 of the French consular corps and is a son 

 of the late M. Hippeau who was consul 

 in Santiago during the Spanish>-American 

 war. 



In recognition of his good batting in 

 the Cincinnati Reds and the good name 

 he has given Cuba in the baseball world, 

 the Havana City Council on August 8th 

 voted a $200 gold medal to be given to 

 Armando Marsans, Cuba's great baseball 

 player. 



Foreigners coming to Cuba, who have 

 been divorced under the laws of their 

 native countr\', and where that law allows 

 them to re-marry, will be allowed to be 

 ruled by such laws, according to a resolu- 

 tion recently handed down by President 

 Gomez, and which is now obtained from 

 a court in order to give it the legal force. 



The Central Xiquero, Oriente Province, 

 reports a harvest of 100,300 sacks of sugar 

 as against 125,000 sacks which it expected 

 to make. The shortage is blamed entirely 

 to the labor troubles which it experienced 

 during the year. 



