don’t know which) defies refusal. But at last even that—as all things good or bad will—palls and borrowing becomes a more difficult art. Friends shirk him, acquaintances avoid him, and long before the end of the journey ‘the Gent Afloat’ is known and scouted as a penniless, reckless adventurer void alike of honour or honesty.” =Shipboard Newspapers.= This account of an adventurer of the fifties came out of the _Lightning Gazette_, a paper published weekly aboard the ship. Realising the importance of keeping such a mixed collection of passengers amused Messrs. James Baines put a printing press aboard each of their ships and thus the issue of the shipboard newspaper was something always to be eagerly looked forward to on Saturdays. In many an English and Australian home there are no doubt still to be found treasured, stained and tattered, copies of these ships’ newspapers. I have myself handled volumes of the _Lightning Gazette_, the _Eagle Herald_, the _Royal Charter Times_ and coming down to more modern days, the _Loch Torridon Journal_ and other Loch Line papers. The printer of these ship newspapers was usually a paid member of the crew, but the editor and sub-editor were elected by the passengers, the captain, of course, acting not only as a frequent contributor but also as a censor—no matter of a controversial sort either religious, political or otherwise being ever allowed to appear in the news sheet of Captain Enright’s ship. =The Ship’s Notice Board.= The ship’s official newspaper sometimes had to contend against rival productions, promoted by private enterprise, but its chief rival was the ship’s notice board, which was a stout one, being no less than the mainmast. Here are a few notices, gathered haphazard from the _Lightning’s_ mainmast. CLOTHING SOLD BY THE PURSER Cigars, 2d. each; per hundred £0 12 0 Do. Havannah each 0 0 4 Canvas trowsers 0 3 6 Kersey drawers 0 3 6 Mits 0 1 0 Oilskin trowsers 0 5 6 Oilskin coats 0 7 6 Pilot cloth coats 0 5 0 Pilot cloth trowsers 0 12 0 Blue serge shirts 0 5 0 Regatta shirts (printed fronts) 0 3 6 Black alpaca coats 0 12 0 Felt hats 0 3 0 Sou’westers 0 2 0 Black glazed hats 0 4 0 Guernsey frocks 0 8 6 Scotch caps 0 2 0 Knives 0 1 6 Apply to C. T. RENNY, _Purser_. RAFFLES.