The Swansea Gazette and Daily Shipping Register

Swansea Harbour OFFICERS I General Manager, Statutory Har- f bour Master, and Collector V W. LAW of Rates I Assistant Collector of Rates-GEO. JONES Wharfinger—L). R. MORGAN. Traffic Superintendent-H. T. HANDELL. Telegrams, LAW, SWANSEA." I'elenhone— Harbour Office Corporation 13 Dock Master, North Dock 0. 688 „ South Dock „ 584 „ Prince of Wales DOCK,, 690 Mumbles Lighthouse. „ 186

North Dock. Dock Master D. G. DAVTEB. -0- Aranci s 78, odd, Gloucester Annie Jones 76, Clausen, Watchet 1 .e Baltic 69 Thomas, Youpbal Four Brothers 74, Lathom, Drogheda Flying Foam 84 Collings, Antwerp Hannah M Bell a 1933, Cooper, Bristol La Fontaine s 1337, Porcrau, Chantenay Ossian a 297, Thomas, St Brieux Spes s 525, Bjorm, Rotterdam Slateford s 88, McLeod, Belfast SnowflaKe s 36, Irwin, Ilfracombe ARRIVED January 21 p.m. Nil January 22 a.m. Marie Eugenie 37, Allen, Bridgwater Sarah 44, Knight, Bridgewater Talbot a 280, OwenF, Liverpool SAI1>E1> Jan 21 p.m Nil January 22 a. m A I s 66, Poole, Bridgwater Fane 9 697, Londal, beville Princess Patricia s 275, Mclsaac, Hull &c

South Dock. I Dock Master D. EVANS, R.N.R. Congress s 697 Dabbert Rouen Dorothy s yt Boardman sea Elemore s 549, Bowie, Liverpool Hero (yt) Bond, sea Lydia Cardell 170 Tyrrell, Preston Linn O'Dee s 282 Bie, Treport Normandy p s 281, Combe Oaprey fyt) Parsons, Barry Vivian (yt) Shea, Port Talbot William vt 1, Granham, «*>{§ ARRIVED January 21 p.m Newent R 613, Sotton, London January 22 a.m Pultenay s 78, Kurnow, Hayle Velocity s 62, Bullock, Bristol Swansea Trader s 247, Sutherland, Llanelly Sunlight s 227 Dawson, Port Talbot SAILED, Jan 21 p.m Juno s 356, Aubert, Caen Jan 22 a.m Hetty 90 Andrews Guernsey

PHnrA nf Wales Dock I Dock Master IV GREEN, f )-_ø- Aquila s 1407, Andersen, Antwerp Astillero s 864, Troon Chatfield s 1904, Hunt, Poit Nolloth Cheriton s 685, George, Pomaroc Duchess of York s 1648. Storm, Antwerp Dunsley s 1254, Roper, Bordeaux Eppleton s 575, Evans, Grimsby Elakoon 605, Gronross, Risor Llandaff City s 1196. Fitt, Bristol New YorK City s 1875, Barclay, Bristol Phonix s 1276, Larsen, Tilt Cove Tudor s 670, Higgins, Rouen Trafalgar s 996, Samuel Rivadeo Westmanlond s 916, Nilsson, Manchester ARRIVED. January 21 p.m. Norseman s 86, Davies, Porthgain Lackenby s 1347, Paikinson, Rotterdam Trevorian s 1442, WoolcocK, Odessa TaBso a 1120, W at, ins. Cardiff Hemitlte s 302> Campt ell, W orkington Jan 22 a.m Veghtstroom s 829, Vos, Bristol Milo s 896, Hunt, Cardiff SAILED Jan 21 p m, Constance s 76, Humphries, Neathabbey Holland s 2438, Prentis, ltacontiara and Porto Velho Marie s 67, Redmond, Arklow Alacrity s 532, Colvin, Rouen City of Liverpool p 657, Tyrrell Hamburg Jan 22 a. m Ravensberg s 538, Buscher Caen Gracie s 66s, Nordberg, Boulogne Algerie s 1535, DieryeKx, Barcelona

Vessels in River. A — — Kildare s 1549, Davidson, Axdrossan A hertawe, dredger, Paldon j Lynx (tug boat) sea Taurus s barge 30. Wilson, Milford Kings Lynn s 336 Bee, London y Boconnoc 37, Jones, Aberthaw

Graving Docks. I < \MBRIAN RY DCE-No. 1. City of Frankfort s 520 Peterson, Dublin CAMBRIAN DRY Docx-N ol2. CAMPRIAN GRIDIRON CENTRAL DRY DOCK Cervin s 1173, Park, Dunkirk CENTRAL HARD Erminie s 1251 Lewis, Viko JERSEY DRY DùCK" JERSEY HARU VILLLERS DRY DOCK F, i: GLOBE DRY DOCK. 1 PRINCE OF WALES DRY DOCK Rotherfield s 1843 Farrant Port No Iloth., PHOENIX DRY DocR SWANSEA MERCANTILE DRY DOCK.

BITS FROM COOKS. THE MIRACLB f<AY. Itt pMfaoe to Professor Charles Mill Gayl«y^ •fhe Star of Bethlehem: a Miracle Play of tb ktirkf," which the author has reconstructed fM8 be Towneley and other Old English eyelet of tile felrtnunth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, embodies 10 much wen-condensed information ooa- Mining the miracle plays of our forefathers thai leaders who have but little time to devote to Weondite subjects will be glad to ha* ) the follow lie quotations placed before them 1 At frst these plays existed as units, each com. iBemorating some episode in the life of Christ of rii the saints, or som« important fragment of Ol. Vaatament history. But gradually they coalepcSw at this place and that into a cycle (or sequence of taywhere from five to fifty dramatic composition*} aoverinjL in one survey the whole of sacreo histery anl prophecy, as told in Scripture and in ecclesiastical legend, from the Fall of the Ang«??s the Day of Judgment. In England the verms of these cycles are found, even before the Gorman conquest, i:i dramatic trope'- or paraphrase* Df the sacr&'i narrative, presented y the clergy it connection with the gervt.y. Later tbe&i efforts at histrionic, and there fort* more vivid, Jiresentation of Scriptural Jbssom ^radiml'y lapsed from the Latin mto the Etglish tonglH". ana frote the church to the churchyard 01 the village green, and from the clerical to the lay actor—awl they found in the process ever warni^rw'cani!' with tbl people of the town. During the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries the trade* mnions of those days—the craft.- < r g ¡; ilds of centre? like Chester, York, "oveutry. i-lwikld, Dublin Digby, Beverley, and ialf x hundrtd more—adopted the cycles and presented chem, each in u.t owr way, but in their totality .ind in chronologic*; sequence, in connection with the great lpstivals of the Christian year. Each guild was wont b» let on a wheeled p'al i'r.rm or "Iageant" scaffold end the waggons bearing ihc teener}' and pit.yert Ciade the circuit if the Hhnl, stopping the suceets. liJve repetition of the pei lorn ance at duly appointed stations, whore efx-ctajfr/irs in hng^ conco-jro 1 eto*' W 1M to h* wl,t-tt) Ooti. till or*.

TIDE TABLE — KOR J A N U A R Y I HIGH WATER. TIME, HEIGHT ON CILLS. ^eek P of Wales South and N Dock l ock A.M. J P.M. A.M. | P.M. A.M. A.M. P. M. F I F I F I I Friday. 0 50 1 24 26 0 26 8 28 0 i Saturdy 1 55 2 27 26 3 27 6 28 5 3 Sunday. 3 0 3 29 27 4 is 5 29 4 4 Monday. 4 2 4 29 28 5 29 3 30 6 5 Tuesday. 5 2 5 25 29 2 29 9 31 2 6 Weduesdy.. 5 55 6 IZ 29 8 30 0 31 8 7 Thursday.. 6 40 6 55 ."0 0 30 1 32 0 8 Friday. 7 21 7 33 30 0 29 9 32 0 9 Saturday.. 7 57 8 9 29 8 29 1 31 8 10 Sunday 8 29 8 42 29 0 28 4 31 0 11 Monda. 9 3 9 16 28 4 27 8 30 4 12 Tuesday. 9 35 9 50 27 8 26 9 29 8 13 Wednes. 10 IU 10 28 26 10 26 8 28 10 14 Thursdy. 10 49* 11 12 25 9 24 8 27 9 15 Friday 11 37 24 11 26 11 16 Saturday. U 4 0 35 23 11 24 6 25 11 17 Sunday. 1 8 1 39 ^3 11 24 10 25 11 18 Monday 2 15 2 45 24 9 26 0 26 9 19 Tuesday. 3 21 3 47 |26 5 27 8 28 5 20 Wednes. 4 22 4 47 '28 3 29 4 30 3 21 Thursday. 5 22 5 43 30 0 30 9 32 0 &2 Friday. 6 15 6 35 31 5 32 0 33 5 23 Saturday.. 7 5 7 25 .32 9 32 9 34 9 24 Sunday. 7 52 8 10 33 3 32 9 35 3 25 Monday 8 35 8 56 :32 10 32 0 34 10 26 Tuesday, 9 21 9 42 32 1 30 11 34 1 27 Wednesday 10 6 10 26 30 10 29 5 32 10 28 Thursday 10 48 11 13 -9 1 27 4 31 1 29 Friday II 40 -7 2 29 2 30 Saturday 0 10 0 43 25 8 25 9 27 8 31 Sunday 1 19 1 54 24 10 25 5 26 10 I -P, The height of Tide up the river at the Pottery bridge is 13 feet less, and at Hafod Works & Middlebank 16 feet 6 inches less than on the Cill at the North Dock Half-tide Basin.:

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I TaB JLV.P* DENMATLUNS OF FPEBDO*. "As I emerged from thtv noad I floated of 8Dd down and laterally like a so" p-bubbk attached to the bowl of a. pipe, until I at taot broke loose from the body und fell lightly to t11. floor, where I slowly rose and expanded into th* fall stature of a man. I seemed to be traD80 htoent, of a. bluish cast, and perfectly naked. With a painful sense of embarrassment I sea toward the partially open door to escape tlu ofw of the two ladies whom I was facing as wet do others whom I knew were about me, but upoa Wttohing the door I found myself clothed, and "tiefied upon that point I turned and faced tktf company." He saw the mourners round his corpse, and Mwd in vain to make them realise his preaeoo* He marvelled that he felt so wonderfully wW*j be passed out of doors and travelled swiftly fluough the air. But he did not pass into tlx tthMf world.

How HE CAMS BACTZ. Dime prodigious ntclw blocked his path. Eh low had not yet come. Be became unconscious again, and when 118 an lying ia hie bed he awoke to oanaoknuMff 8Dd soon recovered. He wrote out this narratir* Mght weeks after his strange experience, but be fcxd it to those at the bedside as soon as ba To Vived. The doctor, who was at ths bedaide. nid that the breath was absolutely extinct M far aa could be obse/ved, and every symptoni Marking the patient aa dead was present. II J MpptMed at one time that he waa actually daa4 •i nlfr as ever I auppoaotd anyone to bO Mail*