48 Colonial Notes. 
brought from Glasgow, and will be of the most improved cha- 
racter. ‘The manufactory, when finished, will be able to operate 
with half the number of men employed by Mr. Redpath, at 
Montreai, and yet be capable of turning out a far greater quantity 
of sugar, on account of the superior character of the machinery. 
The manufactory will be able to turn out from thirty-five to forty 
hogsheads a day of sugar. The buildings, when erected, will 
present an exceedingly fine appearance from the harbour, in con- 
sequence of their large, and actually elegant proportions. The 
total cost of the establishment is expected to be upwards of a 
quarter of a million of dollars at least. It will take some months 
yet before it can be definitely stated when the establishment will 
be in actual working order, but we have no doubt now that ope- 
rations have commenced, the enterprizing men at the head of 
the undertakinz will not allow the grass to grow under their feet. 
The benefits that Halifax must derive from the establishment of 
such manufactories cannot be exaggerated. The expenditure 
connected with their construction alone brings a large amount of. 
money into the country, whilst they create trade and stimulate 
industry. Andwe may add that this sugar refinery is an evidence 
of the advantages that a union with the Provinces will bring with 
it. No one can fail to see that men of capital would hesitate to 
invest their money in such an enterprise unless.they expected to 
have a market of four millions of people. It is with a view of 
supplying not simply Nova Scotia, but all British North America, 
that the manufactory in question is projected on so large a scale. 
—‘* Halifax Reporter.” 
THE SPONGE FISHERY OF RHODES.—The total number of 
boats employed in this fishery last year was 618, of which 35 
fished at Bengazi, 156 at Mandruha, three at Syria, 157 at Cara- 
mania, 25 at Cyprus, 71 at Crete, the same number in the Otto- 
man Archipelago, and 100 off Greece. The total value of the 
take was 13,890,000 piastres. The boats were visited with 
unusual casualties, eleven were wrecked on the coast of Barbary 
during a gale of wind on the 28th August. About one-third more 
boats than usual went to Mandruha, where the fishing was 
plentiful. With the exception of three Symi boats, no other 
sponge fishing craft belonging to those islands remained on the 
coast of Syria, in consequence of a new tax of 18 per cent. 
custom dues and tithe, lately established on sponges fished in that 
locality. ‘The boats which had sailed there proceeded to Cara- 
mania, which circumstance increased about one-third the number 
of those which originally intended to fish on that coast. Common 
and coarse sponges being principally imported to France, several 
sponge merchants of that country send annually agents to make 
their purchases direct from the divers, while not a single British 
merchant has as yet followed the same course for the purchase of _ 
fine sponges, which are chiefly forwarded to Great Bntain. The 
