The Board of Customs have appointed Mr. Cockshott to be
Chairman of the Surveyors of the port of London—a very responsible post. Apparently, the mercantile community will be pleased by the selection; Mr. Cockshott having been the first to bring the decimal system of weights into practical operation here, by its partial introduction into the Customs. We are informed that Mr. Bruff, the engineer of the Eastern Counties Railway, has resigned his office. The reason alleged is that the new Board has discharged some four hundred of the men employed in the works and reparations of the lino.—/Tempath's
A complaint has been made that bankers refuse to pay any money on a check where the sums stated in the body and at the left-hand corner differ in any particular; and it has been suggested that they might at least pay the smaller amount written on the check. [This, however, would be counter to the legal rule, that the words written in the body of the cheek constitute the effective order.] About 10,000/. more being required for the complete restoration of Doncaster Church, the Town-Council has voted an additional 4000/., Mr. E. B. Denison has given a second 5001., and the committee do not doubt that they can raise the rest.
The demand for recruits during the late war prevented the Queen's regiments in India .from receiving their necessary additions of men to make up the full establishment : this is now being remedied,. by encouraging volunteering from home regiments, and by collecting recruits, who are to be drilled for early departure to the East.
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