CURRENT PAPERS. 



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two others, Nos. 848 and 854, which have most remarkable 

 rates of drift — 29*5 and 21*0 miles per day respectively. 



It will be observed that pamphlet No. 7 records a drift 

 in current paper No. 785 of 29*2 miles per day. It was 

 committed to the Socotra Sea and found in the Gulf of 

 Aden, which with one exception is the most rapid drift on 

 record — the paper referred to is No. 21 in the first pamphlet 

 with a rate of 31*0 miles per day. With one exception- 

 No. 164 with a drift of 9,585 miles — the longest drift shewn 

 in this pamphlet is No. 891 with 9,020 miles. 



List of current papers arranged in months in which they 

 were received : — 



Year. 



Jan. 



Feb, 



Mar. 



April 



Jlay 



June 



July 



Aug. 



Sept. 



Oct. 



Nov. Dec. 



Total 



1896 



No 



obse 



rvat 



tons 







Wor 



k be 



gan 



3 



7 | 11 



21 



1897 



5 



7 



4 



5 



10 



7 



9 



9 



3 



8 



9 



6 



82 



1898 



6 



7 



6 



2 



10 



7 



5 



9 



4 



16 



8 



12 



92 



1899 



11 



11 



11 



6 



13 



9 



10 



15 



7 



16 



1L 



10 



130 



1900 



14 



20 



11 



12 



8 



10 



9 



7 



9 



17 



10 



8 



135 



1901 



13 



13 



14 



11 



10 



13 



6 



9 



9 



14 



11 



15 



138 



1902 



12 



14 



15 



17 



8 



12 



7 



7 



10 



3 







105 



Total 



61 



72 



61 



53 



59 



58 



46 



56 



42 



77 



56 



62 



703 



Average 



10-1 



120 



10-2 



8'8 



9-8 



9-7 



7-7 



9-3 



7-0 



110 



93 



10-3 





RATE OF DRIFT IN THE WEST SIDE OF TASMAN SEA. 



S.S. "Kamona," Union S.S. Oo. 

 "On the trip from Tasmania to Sydney, from October 

 30th to the 2nd November, I experienced the strongest 

 southerly current I ever felt along the New South Wales 

 coast between the above dates. It is a common thing in 

 the summer months to measure from 27 to 37 miles more 

 than the actual distance between Cape Everard and Sydney 

 (High Light), but on my last trip, I measured 54 miles 

 more than the actual distance between Kent's Group (Bass' 

 Strait) and Sydney High Light ; also we were 5|- hours 

 behind time and had fine weather all the way." 



O. Suffern, Master. 



