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GSDENERL NEWS.
THE NEW SIGZTAL CODE.
A. new international signal coda, drawn
up by the .Londcn Board of Trade, which f8 a
strikingly comprehensive work, is to come
into operation in the year 1900, when, it is
presumed (remarks a Melbourne contem
porary), the averago mariner will have
the advantage "of a college training and
be endowed with an exceptionally high
order of mental faculties. It the old
code was not snffoluetly oomprehensiva,
the new one is comprehenslve to a degree
cealulated to satisfy the love of detail
of a statistician. Captaine will be able
to chat at aea with all the ca'e and fulnees
of a fireside conversation lEvcry civility is
provided for, even to "How are you off for
sodawaterP" It fe cofildently hoped that
by the neweole master mariners will be able
to know which way they are going when
'they meet, so that it will not bh necessary to
come into coelilon before they can make up
their mindson the subject. It fo also hoped
that the lookout will be able to distinguish
between the Otway light and the pole star,
and in this way avoid such risky experiments
as overland cnouree.
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