Papers respecting an application for aid and co-operation solicited by the Committee of Management appointed by a public meeting to consider the best means for improving the communication between the shore and shipping at the Port of Madras
Correspondence respecting the adoption in the Provinces of Malabar and Canara of a revised tariff on teak timber for the purpose of discouraging the practice of felling young trees and saplings in the Malabar forest
Papers relating to a report upon the experiments made at the port of Madras to test the usefulness of two life boats constructed upon the designs of E Palmer and Lieutenant Cook, R.N., and to ascertain the comparative merits of [George William] Manby's life apparatus and of [John] Dennett's rockets
Correspondence relating to sailing directions between Tuticorin and Cape Comorin printed for general information and sanction for the construction of a light near Tuticorin
Correspondence relating to the tidal observations at Singapore being continued during the stay of Lieutenant C M Elliot, Superintendent of the Magnetic Observatory at Singapore