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CHANGES AND ADDITIONS. 3 mounted by an inclosed top and lantern. The framework is painted red, the inclosure and lantern white, and the roof red, The height of the building from base to vane is 40 feet. The light is éntermittent red, bright 6 seconds with intervals of dark- ness of 6 seconds. It is elevated 43 feet above lake level, and should be seen in clear weather at a distance of 94 miles, over an are of 180° from N.N.E. through north and west to8.8.W. The apparatus is diop- tric of the 6th order. Position of Buoys.--A red spar buoy is moored in 14 feet of water on the southern side of West channel entrance, and is about 73 yards from the western extremity of the breakwater. On the northern side of this channel entrance is moored a black spar buoy, distant about 220 yards from the western extremity of Queens wharf. About 1,100 yards southward from the red buoy, described above, is a red spar buoy moored in 14 feet of water. It lies about 480 yards westerly from Turners bath establishment. The bank southwestward of Lighthouse point is marked by five can buoys painted red. Buoy No. 12 marks the N.W. point of the bank, and is moored in 34 fathoms of water. The four other buoys are each moored in 8 fathoms. Bearings of Gibraltar (Lighthouse) Point light from the five buoys, respectively, are as follows : Buoy No. 12; N.E. by E. 4 E. (N. 62° 30' E.) Buoy No. 10; N.N.E. $ E. (N. 28° 30' E.) Buoy No. 8; N. $ E. (N. 9° E.) Buoy No. 6; N, by W. 4 W. (N. 13° 30' W.) Buoy No. 2; N.W. $N. (N. 89° W.) A red spar buoy near the outer end of east pier in East channel entrance, Toronto harbor, marks a pile of rock sunk there to protect the pier from action of the ice. There are three black spar buoys on the western side of this Hast channel and are about 147 yards apart; the outer one is opposite the red spar buoy described above. The west side of the inner end of East channel is marked by a red spar buoy; the buoy is near the northern extremity of the west pier. Wreck on the Bay of Quinté.--The barge "Puritan" sunk in about 20 feet water, in the main channel of the Bay of Quinté, about one quarter of a mike 8S: by W. 4 W. from Deseronto light. Her mast shows above water and a light is shown from it at night. <A spar buoy is also being moored to draw attention to the position of the wreck Welland Canal Entrance--Temporary Range Light at Port Dalhousie.--A lighthouse tower is in course of construc- tion at Port Dalhousie, lake Ontario end of the Welland canal, to replace the back range lighthouse destroyed by lightning in 1898. The hew tower stands on the shore line immediately east of the line of the breakwater, 1,500 feet inside the front range light, in the same alignment as the old range. ; Pending the completion of the new tower, a fixed red light willbe shown from the framework of the new building, at an elevation of 50 feet above the level of the lake. The permanent light in the new tower will be a revolving or intermittent white light, but will not be put in operation before the opening of navigation, 1899. Charlotte Harbor.--The small excursion steamer Island Chief burned to the water's edge and lies on the bottom in about one fathom ad Pe Ta re Ee