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 ing back with interest, we look forward with hope, and believe that the new Henley will maintain, and perhaps improve, its modern enhanced and extended standard of oarsmanship, and that the new course, when fairly tried, will cncourage, rather than discourage, competition that looks for fair field and no favour,

THAMES PRESERVATION ACT,

Tn 1884 a Committee of the House of Commons sat to inquire into the best method of preserving public rights and those of ripatians on the Thames. The latter had deseloped so much pleasure traffic during the last quarter of a century that some “highway” legislation on the subject became imperative. An Act for regulating steam-launch traffic on the Thames had been passed in 1883. The report of the Committee produced the following Act, which should be read by all who intend to navigate the Thames for pleasure.

Draft by-laws, to carry out the provisions of this Act in detail, have twice heen propounded by the Thames Conservancy during 1886, and a third code was drafted carly in 1887, but the first two editions provoked so much hostile criticism that the Conservancy withdrew them; and, up to the date of going to press, the third edition of proposed by-laws, which still seems too objectionable in many details, has not received the sanction of the Board of Trade, which is necessary before the code can become law.

TIIAMEPS PRESERVATION ACT, 1883.

48 & 49 VICT. CAP. 76.

An Act for the preservation of the River Thames alove Tatdington Lack for purpuses of public recreation, and for regulating the pleasure iraffc Sherevn. {August 14, 1883.]

Wuerras the River ‘Thames is a navigable highway ; and whereas, by reason of the increase of population in London ard other places near the said river, it has come to be largely used as a place of public recreation and resort, and it is expedient that provision should be made for regulating the different kinds of traffic in the said river beoween the town of Cricklade and Teddington Lock, and npon the banks thereof within the limits aforesaid, and for the keeping of