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WAREHOUSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
expeditiously discharged either to warehouse or railways, ready foi 
transportation to all parts of Great Britain. 
The grain, provision, and fruit warehouses are commodious, and 
fitted with the most improved machinery for quick dispatch. 
Warehouses arc provided for storage of large quantities of hay. 
straw, moss, litter, and esparto in close proximity to the docks and 
connected with all the leading railways. 
Here are the only cattle lairs and slaughterhouses in South Wales 
for lairage and slaughtering of foreign cattle. Excellent refriger 
ating and cold-storage accommodation is found adjacent to the 
slaughterhouses. 
There is good accommodation for deal boards, which can be either 
dispatched to destination or stacked on the quays; also convenience 
for loading on rail, at ship’s side, mining timber, etc., intended for 
the Midlands. Timber is discharged from vessels by hydraulic 
power. The most recent appliances are used in the discharging and 
shipping of goods at the Cardiff docks. 
TRANSSHIPMENT OF GOODS. 
The customs transshipment regulations are now in force at the 
Cardiff docks. This places Cardiff on the same footing as the older 
ports of the Kingdom, such as London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Bristol, 
etc., as regards the shipment of general cargoes and the transfer of 
foreign goods, either from vessel to vessel or from vessel to ware 
house and afterwards to export vessel, without the expense and 
annoyance of an examination by custom-house officials. 
DOCKS AT NEWPORT. 
The docks of the Alexandra Docks and Railway Company, at 
Newport, England, comprise the South, North, and Town docks, each 
with separate entrances from the river Usk. The South and North 
docks are the most important and are connected by a short waterway. 
These two are large and modern and possess every facility for ship 
ment of coal and dealing with general cargo. The lock of the South 
dock is 500 feet long and 72 feet wide; the company is about to 
lengthen it by 70 feet, enlarge the water area, and add to the existing 
appliances of the dock itself. 
The Town dock, situated higher up the river and in the town, is the 
smallest and oldest of the three docks. Coal is shipped and a large 
amount of pithwood and timber is imported at this dock. Owing t<> 
extended warehousing and its favorable position in the town, it is well 
adapted for a general import trade. It was from this dock that the 
largest amount of iron rails for the construction of the first American 
railways was shipped, and so congested was the traffic at this period 
that it was possible, occasionally, to cross the 500 feet of the dock by 
stepping from ship to ship. • 
Newport is naturally the great port for the shipment of the bitumi 
nous coals of the Monmouthshire valleys; from these valleys some of 
the best steam coal is obtained. Its suitability for manufacturing 
purposes is proved by the presence of the large works established in 
the vicinity of these coal fields. A large general export is carried on