Coasting Trade.

It having been ascertained that Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway, Austro-Hungary and Denmark, allowed British ships to participate in their coasting trade on the same footing as those of their own nation, the ships of these nations have been by Order-in-Council, admitted to the coasting trade of Canada. An Act has been passed preventing steamers of other foreign nations from towing ships, vessels or rafts in the waters of the Dominion.