Vol. VIII. No. 90. 
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. 
[June, 1902.] 167 
FORTHCOMING EVENTS. 
UNITED KINGDOM. 
London.. — On the 2nd the King will hold a Levee at 
St. James's Palace. On the same date Mr. Han bury will 
receive a deputation on “ milk-blended ” butter. — June 3, Prince 
of Wales’ birthday. — On the 5th a concert will be held at 
Grosvenor House in aid of the Antarctic Ship Relief Fund. — On 
the 6th inst. at the Royal Institution, Sir Benjamin Baker will 
lecture on “ The Nile Reservoir and Dams. ” — On the 10th the 
dinner of the London Chamber of Commerce, the Indian 
Political Service banquet, and the East Indian Rail- 
way dinner will be held. — On the 19th Sir Antony P. 
MacDonnell will preside at the annual Burma Dinner. — On 
the 20th Lord Windsor will preside at the Complimentary 
Banquet to the Imperial South African League.— On the 
03rd the West Australian Coronation Banquet will be 
held. — On the 26th the Coronation of their Majesties 
King Edward VII. and Queen Alexandra will take place 
in Westminster Abbey. — On the 27th will be the Royal 
Progress of their Majesties through London. — The 28th will 
be the Coronation Review of the Fleet at Spithead. — On 
the 2nd Tuly the Annual Assam Banquet will be held. 
Reading. — The annual conference of the British Dairy 
Farmers’ Association will open on the 2nd inst. 
Richmond (Surrey). — The Royal Horse Show will be 
held on the 14th. 
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
Germany (Mannheim). — An Agricultural Exhibition is to 
be held at Mannheim from June 5 to 10 under the auspices of the 
German Agricultural Society, The exhibition will not be of 
an international character, but it promises to be of interest as 
showing the progress realised by agriculture in South-west 
Germany, especially as regards horse-breeding and cattle- 
rearing. 
Switzerland (Lucerne). — International Museum of 
War and Peace. — The Executive Council of this museum, 
which is shortly to be opened at Lucerne, announce that the 
inauguration ceremony will take place on June 7. (Zurich). — - 
On the 1st inst. the International ’ Textile Factory 
Workers’ Congress will open and continue for six days. 
United States (St. Louis). — The date of the opening of 
the Exhibition at St. Louis has been postponed to the 1st May, 
1904. 
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NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. 
NAVAL. 
The Amphitrite, cruiser, Captain C. Windham, left Malta 
on the 18th ult, for China. 
Prince Alexander of Battenberg joined the Britannia at 
Dartmouth yesterday as a naval cadet. 
The Skate, torpedo-boat-destroyer, was' paid off into the 
A Division of the Devonport Fleet Reserve on the 20th ult. 
The Endymion, cruiser, Captain A. W. Paget, has been 
ordered home from the China station as soon as is convenient, 
to pay off. 
The Cyclops, coast defence ship, has been transferred to the 
E Division of the Dockyard Reserve at Sheerness as unfit for 
further service. 
The Travers pension of 7C75 a year, vacant by the death 
of Commander J. P. Cheyne, lias been awarded to Commander 
H. E. C. Robinson. 
A naval pension of ^riioo a year has been awarded to Vice- 
Admiral T. Harvey Royse, being an additional pension for 
officers of that rank. 
A Travers pension of £7$ a year, being an additional 
pension from April 1 last, has been awarded to Commander 
C. S. Shuckborough. 
'The appointment of Admiral Sir C. E. Domvile to succeed 
Admiral Sir J. A. Fisher as Commander-in-Chief in the Medi- 
terranean is notified. 
Rear-Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker has been appointed 
Rear-Admiral for the Cruiser Division of the Mediterranean 
Fleet, to date May 7. 
It is understood that Rear-Admiral William H. Henderson 
will succeed Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Jackson as Superintendent 
of Devonport Dockyard. 
The fourth of the British Submarine-boat Flotilla was 
successfully launched from the yard of Vickers, Sons and 
Maxim, Barrow, on the 23rd ult. 
Rear-Admiral C. C. Drury has been appointed to succeed 
Rear-Admiral D. H. Bosanquet as Commander-in-Chief on the 
East Indies Station, to date June 5. 
On the 4U1 inst. Rear-Admiral Sir W. Acland will be 
relieved as second in command of the Channel Squadron by 
Rear-Admiral the Hon. A. Curzou-Howe. 
Rear-Admiral G. L. Atkinson-Willes has been appointed to 
succeed Rear-Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker as second in 
command of the Home Squadron, to date May 7. 
Vice-Admiral A. L. Douglas has been appointed to succeed 
Vice-Admiral Sir F. G. D. Bedford as Commander-in-Chief 
on the North American and West Indies Stations, to date 
June 10. 
The Icarus , sloop, Commander G. F. S. Knowling, 
arrived at Devonport on the roth ult. , from the Pacific Station, 
where she has been relieved by the Shearwater, Commander 
C. H. Umfreville. 
The London, battleship, is to be commissioned at Ports- 
mouth on the 7th inst., and after the naval review she is to be 
sent to the Mediterranean to relieve the Royal Sovereign, 
battleship, Captain F. S. Inglefield. 
The launching of the cruiser Encounter, at Devonport on 
June 18, will be followed shortly afterwards by the floating of 
the cruiser Challenger at Chatham. J lie Encounter was 
commenced on January 28, 1901, and the Challenger on 
December 8, 1900. 
The Arrogant, cruiser, Captain H. C. B. Hulbert, will 
be paid off into the A Division of the Devonport Fleet 
Reserve on june 3, and the Doris , cruiser, will be commissioned 
■on the following Saturday with the officers and crew of the 
Arrogant to take her place in the Channel Squadron. 
The preparations for laying down the four British cruisers 
placed with Clyde builders, have been temporarily stopped, as 
the Admiralty has decided to lengthen the vessels so as to allow 
greater thickness of the armour protection. The change is 
made in consequence of a newly invented forged steel cap for 
armour-piercing shells. 
Orders have been given that all the Naval, Gunnery, 
and Torpedo Schools at Portsmouth are to close during the 
month of July, as important naval operations are to be carried 
out on the south-west coasts of England and Ireland. In 
these the Channel, Home (Reserve), and Cruiser Squadrons 
will take part, leaving Spithead on July 2. 
The 30-knot destroyer Cynthia, which recently had a 
thorough refit at Sheerness, was commissioned at Chatham on 
the 14th ult. for the Mediterranean Station, to replace the 
27-knot destroyer Skate. The Cynthia will shortly leave for 
Malta in company with the 32-knot destroyer Albatross and 
the 30-knot destroyer Mallard, both of which are under orders 
to join the Mediterranean Flotilla, replacing the older and 
slower destroyers Hardy and Sunfish , which are to return to 
England for instructional duties. When these changes have 
taken place very few 27-knot destroyers will be left in the 
Mediterranean. 
In the Niclausse boiler trials of the Seagull, torpedo-gunboat, 
and at her first eight-hours’ trial at 1,000 i.h.p. , when the actual 
mean power was 1,029 rmd the coal consumption worked out 
at 2*28 lb. per unit of power per hour, the make-up feed 
water necessary to replace wastage was *32 lb. (not 32 lb.) 
per unit of power per hour. When she ran for eight hours 
at nominally 3,000, but actually at 2,804 i-h.p., and the coal 
consumption was 2*15 lb. per unit of power per hour, the make- 
up feed water required was '67 lb. (not 67 lb.). The coal 
consumption during the part of the third run worked out at 
2 '14 lb. per unit of power per hour and the make-up feed water 
required was 35 lb. (not 35 lb.). 
The armoured cruiser Leviathan has finished her trials, and 
has proved herself the fastest cruiser in the Royal Navy. On 
her eight hours’ full- power trials she made 23*23 knots per hour, 
and her indicated horse-power was 31,203. Her coal con- 
sumption worked out at 1*94 lb. per unit of power per hour. 
The contract speed of the Drake class is 23 knots, and contract 
power 30,000. The Good Hope, the first to run her trials in 
March last, made 23*05 knots, and her indicated horse-power 
was 31,071. The two remaining cruisers of this class, the Drake 
and the King Alfred, are building, the former at Chatham 
Dockyard, the latter at the Naval Construction Works of 
Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim at Barrow-in-Furness. 
The Belleville water-tube boilers having been condemned 
by the Boilers Committee for the purposes of the Navy, the 
Board of Admiralty, it is understood, have decided on an 
admixture of boilers in all the large new vessels. A certain 
proportion of cylindrical boilers will be fitted with a larger 
number of water-tube boilers. The idea that has prompted 
this decision is, no doubt, that, while the cylindrical boilers 
may be used largely for ordinary cruising purposes, the water- 
tube boilers will give that great rapidity in raising steam in 
emergencies which is their special recommendation. What 
type of water-tube boiler will be used has not yet been 
decided, the Admiralty being engaged in experiments with a 
number of patterns. 
The Gossamer, torpedo-gunboat, which has been fitted with 
new engines and the Reed type of water-tube boilers by the 
Palmer Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, of Jarrow-on- 
Tyne, has been taken into the steam basin at Sheerness Dockyard 
to complete for sea after successfully carrying out her programme 
of steam trials. Particulars of full-power trial : — Pressure of 
steam in boilers, 230 lb. ; ditto at engines, 215 lb, ; air pressure, 
2 '7 in. ; vacuum — starboard, 25*9 in. ; port, 25*2 in. ; revolu- 
tions — starboard, 371*8; port, 371*9 per minute; i.h.p.— star- 
board, high, 849; intermediate, i,r66; low, 1,038 — total 3,053 ; 
port— high, 840; intermediate, 1,072; low, 1,093 — total, 3,005; 
total starboard and port, 6.058 ; speed, 20*32 knots. The old 
engines of the Gossamer were of 3,500 horse-power, and her full 
speed was 19 knots. 
Experiments with oil fuel are to be made on an extensive 
scale with a few of our battleships. The Mars is to have two 
of her large cylindrical boilers fitted for the purpose of burning 
oil fuel exclusively ; two other of her boilers are also to be 
fitted to enable them to burn oil fuel in conjunction with coal ; 
and tests are also to be carried out on board the Hannibal. 
Other tests are to be made at Keyham Dockyard with some 
water-tube boilers belonging to the cruiser Blonde, but these 
boilers are to be erected on shore in the dockyard. The cruiser 
Arrogant is to have similar experiments with the Belleville 
type of boiler, and furnaces are also to be erected at Ports- 
mouth for carrying out tests with liquid fuel. One advantage 
of using liquid fuel will be that it will further economy in 
coal consumption; but in war time it may not be possible 
to import oil, or to obtain it on foreign stations in sufficient 
quantities for the furnaces of our warships ; this must always 
be an important objection to fitting naval boilers to burn 
oil fuel only. 
The Admiralty have decided on the following types of boilers 
for the six first-class cruisers of the 1901-2 programme, now 
under construction ; — 
The Devonshire (Chatham Dockyard). — A combination 
of 4-5ths Niclausse and i-5th cylindrical boilers ; 
The Hampshire (Sir W, G. Armstrong, Whitworth, and 
Co. ). — A combination of 4-5ths Yarrow and i-5th cylindrical 
boilers ; 
The Carnarvon (Messrs. Beardmore and Co. ). — A com- 
bination of 4-5ths Niclausse and i-5th cylindrical boilers ; 
The Roxburgh (the London and Glasgow Shipbuilding 
Company). — A combination of 4*5ths Durr and i-5th cylin- 
drical boilers ; 
The A rgyll (the Greenock Foundry Company), — A com- 
bination of 4"5ths Babcock and Wilcox and i-5th cylindrical 
boilers ; 
The Antrim (Messrs. J. Brown and Co.). — A combina- 
tion of 4-5ths Yarrow and i-5th cylindrical boilers. 
France. — The Temps issues details respecting some 
shooting practice carried out by the Northern squadron, an old 
warship, the Surcouf, being used as a target. Three hundred 
and forty shots had to be fired before she was sunk, and 41 of 
these shots were fired at a range of from 2,200 to 4,000 yards. 
The percentage of hits was 12 per cent., a very satisfactory 
average, the Temps considers, if one compares it with the per- 
centage of hits in the battle before Santiago, viz., 2.V, and takes 
into consideration the fact that the mark on this occasion was 
a much smaller one than that presented by the Spanish vessels. 
The squadron described an arc around the Surcouf in such a 
way that the ship, which is 312 ft. long, gave them from the most 
favourable point a target of 164 ft. and at the least one of 
26 ft. , a considerable portion of the practice being performed at 
the angle which made the objective smallest for the gunners. 
The weather was not clear. — The French Minister of Marine 
has given orders for the laying down of thirteen submarine 
boats; eight are to be constructed at Toulon, and five at 
Cherbourg. The new vessels are to be “submersible ” like the 
Narval, and will be able to disappear from sight in five minutes. 
By the year 1906 France should be in possession of a fleet of 
68 under-water craft. 
Germany. — The German navy is occupied just now in 
making experiments in painting the torpedo-boats a colour 
most fitted to lessen the visibility of the craft in daylight. 
Instead of the coat of deep-black paint which has been peculiar 
to the German torpedo-boats for the last 20 years, these boats 
are now to be painted a grey-brown colour. Several boats now 
on duly have been painted the new colour. It is said that this 
new colour renders the boats scarcely noticeable, especially in the 
Baltic and northern waters. At the same time, there is no colour 
which is equally suitable for all waters. The German warships 
are painted a blue-grey, while those of all other nations are 
painted black as to their bulls, as that shade renders the ships 
least visible at night. On the other hand, vessels painted a blue- 
grey are not easily distinguished in daytime from the colour of 
the sky, the water, the coast, or amid powder-smoke. 
Japan. — A programme of further naval expansion is 
believed to be contemplated by the Japanese Government. 
According to the Tokio correspondent of the Times, the present 
navy, aggregating 245,000 tons displacement, will become 
255,000 tons in 1995. After that year there will be a third 
programme, comprising ten ships with a total displacement of 
about 100,000 tons. 
Russia. —A St. Petersburg telegram states that the Russian 
Caspian Sea fleet will be increased by two new steamers, the 
Skobeleff and the General Kuropatkin, which are expected 
shortly from England, where they have been built. These two 
ships measure 250 ft. in length by 28 ft. in breadth. They have 
a speed of 14 knots, they burn naphtha for fuel, and ane lighted 
with electricity. 
MILITARY. 
The King presented colours to the Irish Guards, on the 
Horse Guards’ Parade, on the 30th ult. 
The King has appointed Major C. J. Burgess, late of the 
Honourable Artillery Company and previously a Lieutenant in 
the 46th Regiment, a Military Knight of Windsor. 
The Victoria Cross has been conferred on Surgeon-Captain 
A. Martin-Leake, South African Constabulary, for conspicuous 
bravery in the action at Wakfontein on February 8 last. 
Colonel Villiers Hatton, C.B., formerly of the Grenadier 
Guards, has been appointed to command the Brigade of Metro- 
politan Militia battalions to be formed on Cowshot-common, 
between Pirbright and Bisley, on J une 9. 
The following officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps 
have been appointed principal medical officers as stated : — 
Colonel W. Donovan, C.B. , now in South Africa, at Hong 
Kong ; Colonel R. Blood, in the Belfast District ; Colonel W. 
Me Watters, in the Southern District ; and Colonel R. H. Quill, 
in the South-Eastern District. 
Colonel S. H. Winter, D.A.A.G., North-Western District, 
has been appointed to the command of the Army Service Corps 
in Egypt, and Lieut. -Colonel F. W. B. Koe, who has recently 
returned from Llong Kong, has been appointed to take over 
the command of the Army Service Corps in the North-Western 
District. 
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STATISTICAL NOTES. 
Canada. — Mineral Production in 1901. — The following 
statement, issued by the Geological Survey of Canada, shows a 
preliminary summary of the Mineral Production of Canada in 
1901 : — 
(Subject to Revision ). 
Product. 
Quantity, 
Value. 
Metallic. 
Copper .... 
. lb. 
40,951,196 
Dols. 
6,600,104 
Gold, Yukon . 
• • 
— 
18,000,000 
,, all other 
. * 
— 
6,462.222 
Iron ore (exports) , 
. tonsf 
306,199 
762,284 
* Pig-iron from Canadian ore 
* r » 
83,100 
1,212,113 
Lc0,d » » * • 
. Ib. 
50,756,440 
2,199,784 
Nickel .... 
• 1 1 
9,189,047 
4 . 594.523 
Silver .... 
. oz. 
5,078,318 
2,993,668 
Zinc .... 
. lb. 
— 
— 
Total metallic . 
• 
— 
42,824,698 
Non-Metallic. 
Actinolite 
.tonsf 
53 T 
3,126 
Arsenic .... 
• I * 
693 
41,676 
Asbestos and Asbestic . 
* 11 
3 8 . 0 79 
1,186,434 
Chromite (exports) . 
* J » 
1.759 
25,444 
Coal .... 
* 11 
6,186,286 
14,671,122 
Coke .... 
• 11 
373 -' 62 5 
1,264,360 
Corundum . , 
* » * 
435 
53.115 
Felspar .... 
• » » 
5,226 
4,710 
Fire-clay 
• 11 
3.979 
5.920 
Graphite 
* >» 
1.440 
28,880 
Grindstones . 
• 9 1 
5 . 7 oi 
55.690 
Gypsum .... 
• II 
2 93.799 
340,148 
Limestone for flux . 
* J 1 
169.399 
183,162 
Manganese ore (exports) 
• II 
440 
4.820 
Mica .... 
• 1 J 
— 
160,000 
Mineral pigments — 
Baryta , 
* t » 
653 
3,842 
Ochres . 
♦ II 
2,233 
16,735 
Mineral water 
• • 
— 
100,000 
Moulding sand 
.tonsf 
14,620 
29.240 
Natural gas . 
. 
— 
312,359 
Peat .... 
.tonsf 
220 
660 
Petroleum 
bbls. 
588,528 
953,415 
Phosphate (apatite) 
.tonsf 
— 
Pyrites .... 
■ is 
28,261 
113,044 
Salt .... 
* 1 1 
594 2 8 
262,328 
Soapstone 
■ 1) 
— 
— 
Talc .... 
* 1 1 
259 
842 
Tripolite 
* 1 1 
— 
Structural Materials 
AND 
Clay Products. 
I 33.328 
Cement, natural rock 
. brls. 
94.415 
,, Portland . 
* » 1 
297,066 
535.615 
Flagstones 
* , 
* 
— 
Granite .... 
, * 
— 
155 , 000 
Pottery .... 
■ . 
— 
200,000 
Sands and gravels (exports) 
.tonsf 
197,302 
117,465 
Sewer pipe 
■ • 
— 
250,115 
Slate .... 
— 
9,980 
Terra-cotta, pressed bricks, etc. 
— 
278,671 
Building material, including bricks, 
building stone, lime, tiles, etc. . 
— 
4,820,000 
Total structural materials 
and clay products . 
_ 
6,461,261 
Total all other non-raetallic 
1 
19,821,072 
Total non-metaflic 
— 
26,282,333 
,, metallic . 
— 
42,824 698 
Estimated value of minera 
ducts not returned 
pro- 
— 
300,000 
Total, 1901 . 
• • 
— 
69,407,031 
„ 1900+ . 
. . 
— 
63.775.090 
>1 1899 • 
* • 
— 
49,548,027 
>> 1898 . 
• 
38,697,021 
* The total production of pig-iron in Canada in 1901 from 
Canadian and foreign ores amounted to 274,376 tons, valued at 
3>5 I2 >9 2 3 dols., of which it is estimated 83,100 tons, valued at 
1,212,113 dols. should be attributed to Canadian ore and 
191,276 tons, valued at 2,300,810 dols,, to the ore imported. 
+ The to n used is that of 2,000 lb. 
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