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 (re JAN. 12, 1872. THE BUILDING NEWS. 47 AN. BA) OOO PrnsacorA Lumper Trapr.—Pensacola now holds the first place in the Southern States of America as a timber and lumber market, and bids fair in the course of a few years to rival any of the British North American ports. For the year end- ing 15th ult., no less than 114 vessels, of an aggre- gate of 95,489 tons, cleared from Pensacola with cargoes of hewn and sawn timber for ports in Great Britain, France, Spain, and Italy. Upwards of 4,000,000 cubic feet of hewn timber, and 1,000,000 cubic feet of square sawn timber, not to speak of nearly 4,000,000 superficial feet of lumber for stow- age, of an estimated value of 800,000 dols. in all, have been shipped thence. The shipping season ex- tends over eight months, so that the average value of the exports is about 100,000 dols. per month. This does not include the large business that is carried on all the year round with Northern, Cuban, and South American ports in lumber, which in itself is quite a large item, and adds materially to the prosperity of Pensacola. Cuass or Construction, ARCHITECTURAL AgsociATron.—The subject for the meeting of this elass on Friday evening next is ‘‘ Valuations.” The following are the questions to be worked out :—(1.) Explain the terms “freehold,” “leasehold,” ‘‘ copy- hold,’ ‘‘tenant-in-fee-simple,” “‘ tenant-at-will,” “ peppercorn,” “‘ gross annual value,” and ‘capital value.” (2.) A dwelling house is required for rail- way purposes, Calculate the claims in respect thereof if let on lease at £100 per annum, seven years to run, ground rent £12 per annum, the pro- perty reverting to the freeholder in fifteen years. (3.) A house is let to a yearly tenant at £50 per annum. What must be the purchase money to yield six per cent., the lease being 80 years, ata ground rent of £7? The premises require an outlay of £20 to put them into proper repair. (4.) To purchase ar estate I sell out of consols at 90. How many years’ purchase may I give to keep my income un- altered ? (5.) State briefly the matter of the Ecele- siastical Dilapidations Act, 1871, with the general effect of the clauses. (6.) How may the erection of a railway station affect the value of property in the vicinity ? Tue Institution or Crym ENGINEERS.—At the meeting of this society on Tuesday, the 9th inst., Mr. Hawksley, President, in the chair, H. M. Dom Pedro II. d’Alcantara, Emperor of Brésil, was elected by acclamation an honorary member. Ten candidates were balloted for and declared to be duly elected, including one Member, viz., Mr. Bradford Leslie, late Chief Resident Engineer of the Eastern Bengal Railway, and nine Associates, viz., Lieut. ‘Osbert Chadwick, R.E., Assist. Eng., P.W.D., Aden; Mr. William Drake-Brockman, Ex. Eng., P.W.D., India; Mr. John Fenwick, Dublin; Mr. John Ed- wards Fraser, Assis, Eng., P.W.D., India; Mr. Alfred Edware Garwood, S. Petersburg; Mr. Alfred Kitt, Superintendent of the Horseferry-road Station of the Chartered Gas Co.; Mr. Arthur Pye-Smith, East Greenwich; Major William Swainson Suart, R.E., Chigwell; and Captain Charles Edmund Webber, R.E., Divisional Engineer, Postal Telegraph Service, G.P.O. It wasannounced that the Council, acting under the provisions of the bye-laws, had transferred Messrs. Peter Paterson, Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt, and Frederick Minshull Weedon, from the class of Associate to the classof Member; and had admitted the following as students to the Insti- tution:—Messrs. Arthur Lloyd Cochrane Bamber, . William Boyd Fitzgerald, Richard Willet Hurst, B.A., John Hamilton Johnson, William Joshua Mason, George Henry Pole, William James Purvis, William Edwards Shaw, and Alexander Siemens, Institution or Survryors.—At the ordinary general meeting, held on Monday, December 18th, the following names were read and passed, to be balloted for on January 26th, viz. :—As members— Charles Couchman, Temple Balsall, near Birming- ham; Ralph P. Nisbet, Bedford Office, Thorney, Peterborough; Lucius Henry Spooner, 11, Park- street, Westminster. Tue Royat ArcnirectuRAL MusreuM.—Through the generosity of J. L. Parsons, Esq., of Lewes, the museum has become the possessor of a cast of the black marble tomb of Gundreda, wife of William de Warrenne, and daughter of William the Conqueror, originally placed over her remains in the Chapter House of Lewes Priory. New Scnoors iy Bow anp Cuersea.—At the meeting of the London School Board on Wednesday last, the Rev. John Rodgers submitted the report of the Statistical Committee, which recommended the board to apply for a requisition from the Education Department to erect a school for 1,000 children in the Bow sub-division, and to instruct the Works’ Committee to make inquiry for a site. The board had previously received the sanction of the depart- ment to the erection of a school for 500 children in Chelsea, and the report recommended that in lieu of the site determined upon (in the Church-street block), the Works’ Committee be instructed to in- quire for a site in one of the other blocks imme- diately to the westward, and that the new site be large enough for a school to accommodate 750 children instead of 500. The report was adopted. University CoLtteGr, Lonpon.—At a session of Council on the 6th inst., Mr. J. Booth, C.B., in the chair, after the reading of the School Committee's Report, in which the Committee represented the urgent necessity of an extension of the school buildings in order to accommodate the rapidly- increasing number of pupils, Mr. Samuel Sharpe, a member of the Council and of the Committee, an- nounced his intention to present the College with the sum of £4,000 as acontribution to the cost of the re- quired buildings. The college has recently received from Mr. J. Pemberton Heywood a donation of £1,000 to the school-building fund. At the same session a communication was read from the late Mr. Felix Slade’s executors, in which they stated that, having been informed that further assistance was needed to defray the cost of the fine-art buildings at the College, and to provide casts and other appliances for the use of the students, they had determined to place in the hands of the Council the sum of £1,600, to be applied for the purposes above men- tioned. About two years ago the executors gave to the College £5,000 towards the building fund, in addition to the large endowments for the Slade Pro- fessorship and scholarships founded at the College in pursuance to Mr. Slade’s will. Tur Foresters’ Hain, WitperRNEss-Row.—On Monday night, for the first time, the effect of light and sound were tried in the Foresters’ Hall, Wilder- ness-row, Clerkenwell. The room is 56ft. by 35t., and will accommodate about six hundred. There is a gallery approached by a staircase from the principal entrance to the building, and quite inde- pendent of the approach to the floor of the hall. Without going into particulars, which we shall doubtless be in a position to give at the formal opening of the building, it may be stated that the hall wears a substantial appearance, while, for the purposesit is designed to serve, its arrangement could not well be improved upon. The two sunburners with which it is lighted fill the place with a dazzling illumination. The acoustic properties of the hall are satisfactory. Tur Femate Scnoon or Art, BLoOMSRURY.— The prize drawings of the students of this institution are now on exhibition at the rooms, Queen’s-square. The prizes, which will be distributed in the course of a few weeks, by H.R.H. the Princess Louise, are as follows :—Prizes presented to the Juvenile Class by John Henderson, Esq., for the best sheet of outlines of common objects from a flat copy :—Edith Geraldine Reid and Charlotte Dimier. Prize for the best set of perspective diagrams :—Ellen Murphy. Dr. Hick’s prizes for the best fan designs :— Ast prize, Alice Blanche Ellis; 2nd prize, Elizabeth Grace Hodge. Extra 2nd prize, given by W. Smith, Esq., Sarah Blake. Honourable Mention: Alice Hanslip, Agnes Ierson, Ellen Olive Wheeler Smith. The Gilchrist Prizes:—One for the best outline drawing from the Antique, and one for the best sheets of outline of ornament reduced and en- larged from a flat copy :—Prize: Fighting Gladiator from the round, Mary Whiteman Webb. Extra 2nd prize, given by G. Godwin, Esq., F.R.S., Charlotte Austen, Prize: Grecian ornament from the flat, Rosanna Coffey. Extra 2nd prize, given by G. Godwin, Esq., F.R.S., Agnes Terson. Honourable mention: Henrietta Rae. The Queen’s scholarship has been gained by Miss Julia Pocock, and the Queen’s gold medal by Miss Mary Whiteman Webb, for studies from still life painted in oils. —_—_—_>____——_. MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEE. Monpay.—INsTITUTION OF SuRvEYOoRS. — Dis- cussion on Mr. Grantham’s paper “ On Agricultural Pipe Drainage. 8 p.m. TUESDAY.—INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.— Discussion “On tho Stresses of Rigid Arches.”’ 8 p,m. THURSDAY.—SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THEF INE ARTS.—First Conversazione of the Season, at the Society of British Artists’ Gallery, Suffolk-street, Pall Mall. FriIpAY.—CIvVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS’ Socrery.—‘t Decay in Stone, its Cause and Prevention.” By J. B. Walton, A.I.C.E. 7.30 p.m. ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION.—Meet- ing of Class of Construction and Practice ; subject: ‘‘ Valuations.” 6.30 p.m.— Meeting of Class of Design; subject: “Tower and Spire to a Church.” 8 p.m. Grade Zetus. ee WAGES MOVEMENT. THE NINE Hours’ MoveEMENT AND THE LONDON BuILpING TRADES.—A conference of the master builders of the Metropolis is to be held in the course of a week to decide upon the steps to be taken in reference to the request of the Stonemasons’ Society that the employers should adopt a uniform nine hours’ system for the whole year, instead of confining the nine hours to the winter months, as at present. SUEFFIELD SLATERS.—At a meeting of slaters held at Sheffield on Monday night, it was resolyed to make a demand for the adoption of the nine hours’ system in the summer, and also for an adyance of wages equiya- lent to about 23. per week. Nine Hours’ MOVEMENT AMONG BRICKMAKERS.— The brickmakers of the Stourbridge district are agita- ting for the adoption of the nine hours’ movement in the yarious brick manufactories of the district. A meeting, attended by about 100 workpeople, was held on Saturday evening, and the chair was taken by one of the workmen present. He said the meeting was called to consider the best means of obtaining the adoption of the nine hours’ movement in the trade, and it was mentioned that Mr. F. T. Rufford had conceded the nine hours to his employes, anannouncement which was received with cheers. Delegates from various works addressed the meeting in support of the move- ment. A resolution was then adopted that two dele- gates should be appointed for each brickyard to wait on the employers, and ask them to adopt the nine hours’ system. The meeting was then adjourned for a week, to hear the result of the application. Snort Hours AND WAGES IN THE BUILDING TRADES AT DupLEY.—On Monday night a meeting of carpenters, joiners, bricklayers, stonemasons, painters, and plasterers was held in the Temperance- hall, Stone-street, Dudley. In opening the proceedings, the chairman read a number of figures to show that in other towns in the kingdom men were earning higher wages, or working less hours, than the men were in Dudley. This was notably the case in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, only eight and six miles respectively from Dudley. Mr. Lurwell, a delegate from Birming- ham, then addressed the meeting, and he held that no class deserved a shorter number of hours and better pay than those in the building trade, for no men had harder work than they had before they reached their ordinary employment. In Birmingham they had gone much further than they had in Dudley, for there the men wanted to work 504 hours per week and 74d. per hour pay, and a conference of men and masters was about to be held to discuss the question. After wait- ing for some time for a resolution, the chairman pro- posed the following resolutlon, after explaining that the men in Dudley worked 58} hours per week:— “That the time has arrived when the operatives in the building trades of Dudley should solicit their em- ployers for some of the privileges which labour is so justly entitled to, and this meeting desires that notice shall be given to the master builders that on and after the first week in May the time will be reduced from 584 hours to 54 hours, and also an increase of wages.” A member of the Kidderminster Trades’ Council also addressed the meeting, and asserted that the men of the building trade in Dudley were in their present con- dition in consequence of the want of unity. The resolution was then carried unanimously, with ap- plause. A speiker said that one or two masters in Wolverhampton had given their men shorter hours and higher wages. A bricklayer moved, “That two dele- gates from each branch of the building trades be ap- pointed to carry out the first resolution, and that they have full power to take what steps they think proper.” This was also carried unanimously. TENDERS. BEVERLEY.—For the erection of New Walk Villas, Beverley. Whole tenders :— Berry & Foster. §s9 14 0 Whitton .. 5 0 0 Dalton .. 0 0 0 0 0 0 CAMBERWELL.—For additions to the Prince of Wales Tavern, Camberwell. Mr. J. L. Stewart, architect. Quan- tities supplied :-— Suddaby .. Page (accepted)... Clarke. £1498 Smith..... 1468 Elbs & S 1313 Elliott .. 1098 Wyatt. 1030 Gough 989 Blease. 973 Poulson... 959 Jerrard .. 894 $39 Tapley & Co.. Architect's estimate, £850. HAMPsTEAD.—For the erection of coach-house, stables, and boundaries for Mr. James Harvey, Hampstead. Mr. William Ailen Dixon, architect — Wicks, Bangs, & Co, (accepted) LiverPooL.—For the erection of 132 labourers’ dwell- ings in Ashfield-street, for the Dwellings Company. Messrs. H. & A. P. Pry, architects:— Roberts & Robinson Jones & Co. J.& R. Due Rome. Mullin. Haigh & worth