on, and at the appointed spot, trusting that the company would be there, was abandoned, and to the company was given the onerous duty of making some kind of signal to the crew of the boat. The most effective kind of signal was the following : an ordinary policeman's or bull's-eye lantern was fitted with a tin tube about twelve or fourteen inches long on its nozzle ; the tube was made somewhat tapering, and the light in the lantern being gradually turned on, would be seen only in the direction in which the tube was pointed. The crew of the boat being on the look out would soon see the signal, and then it would not be long before the boat would be ashore. A gentleman, now in the Coast-guard service, has told me that he has a lantern fitted up as I have described, which was taken with some goods from a party of smugglers.
A tradesman in Hastings informs me that going to his work between six and seven in the morning, he saw, near the present White Rock Place, a signal made, by a man now living in Hastings, with a lantern thus fitted up, and a boat came in and the goods were soon carried safely away.
RUNNING THE GOODS.
All things being favourable, as soon as the boat touched the shore the goods were soon in the hands of the company whose business it was to make the -
