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in-screw seasol Liners have Crown of Castile blundered up astaru broken one shaft and made port with and thrust her sharp catwater though the German liner's overhanging hull.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1909.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The German Mail of the 50th Dec.
The examination in First Aid in con- auction with the Y. M. C. A will be held on Friday at 5.15pm..
the working propeller. Another dange The hole being above water, none of the was delivered in London on the 27th inst. which bas gone by the board is thathull compartments filled, but with which used to come from furious, read-the automatic system working as it did ing sons. The captain of the modern the vessel would not have sunk because by the Castile'a boss. On such vessels
Mr J. C Joughin will deliver a lecture ander the auspices of the Literary and Ba bating Society of the Y.M.C.A. on his trip through Korea and Manchurin, on Satur day. February 8, at 9 o'clock. The kosture will be listrated by excellent lantern views.
Ready made Day and Even-liner has no cause to fear the fiercest of any possible damage inflicted ing Gowns, Paris Models gale that over brews, nor the highest as the Kaiser Wilhelm II., the Amerika, in Hats and Toques, so, The halls of the Adriatic, then the Mauretania, less than twenty the seconds is required to close all compart Laces, Trimmings, Under- Deutschland, the Lusitania, clothing, Boots and Shoes, Kronprint Wilhelm, are as firm against ment doors.
"In designing ships which followed the pounding waves as a stone break-
"A. nicht wi' Barna.'" Such is the the Kronprinz Wilhelm marine cons- Hosiery and Gloves, etc.,
water, These steamships climb
tructors asked themselves this question: programme of the Union Church Literary etc.
over mountain waves, plunge down Suppose the captain, or the man in Club to be held in the School Hall, into abysmal sea hollows ever charge of a vessel when another strikes, Kennedy Road, et nine o'clock this evening. and azon and reach port with a neglects to turn the lever which closes Mr J. D. Auld, who is in charge, will be COUSINE-BRANTINGEAN-At Hengkong.lifeboat or two bent into a shapeless the compartment doors? This suggested stod by other vocalists, A recita ou the 28th January, Raten H.. COUSING to VIOLET BRAS TINGĦAM.
MARRIAGE.
MEMOS FOK TO-MORROW. Auction.
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LowDos, January 27.0
A Soba message says that the Minister
muss, or may be a section of milja new contingency, and it was provided filiustrated) of Tum o'. Shaoter will be for War has issued the strictest ordera bo
against at once by a mechanical appliance missing, but not a plate strained, nor which, in event of the failure of the arib bolt gons. In the seventies officer on the bridge to perform his duty, appeared the first of the bulklicada, acluses the bulkhead doors automatically steel wall about twelve feet abait the when water in any compartment has bow, running from keel to deck. I reached a depth of two fest,"
Among other precautions making for was known as the collision bulkhead,
safety, Mr PERRY mentions the adoption It led to the second phase in the of steamer lanes and the improved pro- evolution of the 'unsi kable' hull the tection secured against fire: "Some erection of balkheads at both ends of twenty years ago a United States naval the engine-room and stakehold. That officer conceived the idea that if vessels Goods per Ghasse undelivered after was a big step forward. The Guionestbound took dne ocean path, and
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liner Arizona, launched in the late- seventies, embodied a still greater advance. In addition to her collision
vessols west-bound another, collisions would be avoided. Steamship lines eagerly fell in with the anggestion, and the result is that ingoing and cutgoing
rendered.
the commander at the frontier to avoid The Jamitano Lilliputiais sere enter a conflict while acting in a most vigorous. tained on beard H..S. Bedford on Wed-manner with Torkish troops attempting nesday by Captain Eorna of the Marine Infantry and Father Watson. The child to arces. At Constantinople offaint els-- ren had a very pleasant timo and were the eles continue calms as regarde Bulgaria recipients of many gifts pressed upon them and state that Turkey has absolutely by their kind hosts.
A cordial invitation is extended to all
no war-like designs.
members and their friends to attend BRITISH NAVAL POLICY- the social evening in the F. M. C. A. on Saturday, commencing at 0 p.m. Mio May is kindly arranging the programme and among others the following have consented to assist:-Mrs Badsley, Miss Stewart,
IMPORTANT REDISTRIBUTION
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Day and Mr Cochrane. An enjoyable Creation of a North Sea Fleet,
evening is assured.
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Copyright protected under
At he close of 1907 the national debt
· Ordinance 3 of 1904) and engine room bulkheads; she had lings now follow well-defined lanes of her holds divided into sections by traffic. Separate paths are laid out for of Japan stood at Y2,217,722,563, Figures
LONDON, January 27. vesels of high power. Slow vessels, just published show that on the 31st
According to the Daily Mail, the Noon-Meeting of Hongeons & Whani-water-tight walls. She was, of course, freighters, and the like, have their December, 1908, the debt stood at ¥2,214,507,264. This is a decline of the maritime sensation of the day, She special ateaming zones. Since that time 2,216,489, but, as the Fagan Chronicle Admiralty proposes in the spring to was pronounced unsinkable, and the no collision on the high seas between very pertinently points out, it does not go reduce the Chancel Fleet and to create Communications relating 10 news should be fight for safety at sea was said to have two liners has occurred. The danger of very far in the sedemption of the total a new North Sea Fleet, which, with the aircased to THE EDITOR.
heeu wou. The Arizona did her best fire on the great transatlantic steamships debt, which the sanguine officials of the Nors Fleet, will comprise 14 battleships
Finance Department expect to sccomplish and 19 crufsers. It is stated that Ylon.-
However, it Admiral Sir William Henry May, Letters relating to business should be addrem
in thirty years from 1206. 10 uphold that optimistic assertion, is no longer to be dreaded. Fire in a ad to The MasAGER,
K.C.B., will probably command the Correspondents must forward their names There was a gloomy afternoon ou the compartment can be isolated by the may be hoped that it is the beginning of a closing of the bulkhead doors, and the real effort at redemption, for on the and addresses with any communications ad- Grand Banks when she ran, bead on
flames may then be fought by forcing 31st March, 1908, the debt stend at North Sea Fleat, Rear Admiral Bir Percy Scott, KC,V.O., the Channel drovved to the Editor, noi for publication but full tilt, into an enormous iceberg. The into the burning section of the hull carY3,270,820,452, upon which the figures on as evidence of quod faith.
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Should an explosion take place in the engine-room of a modern steamship, the doors would close automatically, pre- Texting the escape of steam and fure." at Shanghai in 1888, died at Bochester, In conclusion Mr PERY quotes" a great Miny on Dec. 20ik, of cancer, aged 78. steamship captain," who has said that
President Roosevelt recently rede ninety-a special manage to the Legislature six mailos in eighteen hours, setting an warning it against Anti-Japanese Jegia example which he hopes military and lation, aval offioms will fellow.
The Governor of Californía, has sent
bow crumpled, and the collision bulk-bonic acid gas, steam, and water. Fires the 31st December show a decline of Fleet, and Vice Admiral George Neville, head filled almost immediately But the car from time to time or liners, but Y62,312,185. About 60 millions of the C.V.O., the Home Fleet.
they are extinguished so readily, and total represent bonds and debentures of water went no farther, and the Arizons aroso easily confined, that the passengers the railway companies taken over by the WARNING AGAINST ANTI- made port. One compartment, two seldom know anything about them. Orders for extra copies of the 'Caixa Man compartments, perhaps tive compart- should be sent before 11 a.m. on the day after publication. After that hour the supply is ments, many be filled and the vessel limited, Cash 10 ss., Credit 20 cts, per remain afloat; but there is always the one extra space which must not be filed. But we may take some assurance from the extrema improbability of such the passenger is "fifty per cent. safer destructive collisione, especially in the on sea than on shore" when the captain case of modern liners, which have many observes four geldon rules-Look to more water-tight compartments, infinite your wireless; don't speed in rough weather; run your own ship; go slow ly stronger bulkheads, and better
in fog." All of which is very cheerful devices for saving Efe in the event of reading for those who go down to the accident than had the ill-fated Elbe.sen in ships and whose paths are on the Shipbuilders profited by that tragedy. great waters. Bulkheads were multiplied and corapart- wets made, smaller in subsequent ressola. For even years nothing occurred. In February of 1899, groping her way through the fog which hung over the Grand Banks, the French line steamship La Bourgogne
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Singapore paper contain several para graphs relating to armed robberies by Chinese just prior to China New Year,
HONGKONG, THURSDay, January 28,1909, THE SAFETY LIMIT AT SEA. THE latest shipping disaster in the has proved a veritable Per Bottle. Atlantic
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1.10 18 ttle doubt that but for the fact was rammed by the sailing vessel Cro-been killed, and 135 seriously injured.
During the present football season in America, no fewer than 18 players hare
The Annual General Meeting of the Canton Medical Missionary Society is to be
Hall, Canton. held on Saturday next, at 4 p., in the
In honour of the birthday of the German Emperor the German cruiser
Lieut. Colonel Pyperoux, of the Second Regiment of French Colonial Infantry, has beea appointed to Tongking as chief of staff of the troups of Indo-Chine.
THE NORTH-GERMAN
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QUESTION OF SUBSIDY BY GOVERNMENT.
The death as occurred at Hamburg, of Mr Julina Brussel, formerly of the (Reuter's Service to the China Man Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora
Copyright protestet under tion, Hamburg, at the age of 63. Mr
Urdinance & of 1894) Brussel was formerly a merchant in Singa-
LONDON, January 27. pore, and on returning to Europe his
The Reichstag has referred to a com- services were secured by the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank which was just thau mittes the Government Bill for subsidis- opening in Hamburg. Mr Brussel earned ing the south ses services of the North popularity in Hamburg as he had done in German Lloyd ships. Several speakers supported the Bill on the ground of Singapore by his gonial temperament.
British and Japanese competition.
"MH JUSTICE WISE.
The death is announced of Rev. A. G. Butler first head master of Haileybury College. The Rev. Arthur G. Butler was
third son of the Doan of Peterborough. The statement made in our colanos on a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and was Bo was educated, at Rugby, where he Wednesday that Mr Justico Wise came out afterwards served assistant master under to Hongkong as Police Magistrate in 1884 Dr Temple, and at University College, is not strictly accurate. He was a practis. Oxford. He was mastor of Haileyburying barrister in the local comts before, he from 1862 to 1867, and Inter became a accepted the appointment as Magistrate. tator at Oriel Mr Butler was an all round In 1883 be appeared for the defence of The Hou Treasurer of the Alico athlete, besides being a poct of no mean Logan in the once well known Canton case NE TULAL CONVICES-People who and made no effort to close the doors in Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to order. He was head of the Rugby Eleven the bulkheads. When one compartment acknowledgo with thanke the following in 1846 and winner of the Racket (paire) atason how pleasant Stearne
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GREEN SKAL CAPSULE. 1.50 addition to the melancholy tales of the Was stove in by the sharp bow of the donaticus to the funds of the Hospitals Oxlord in 1856, and kis nemo will bo in wine of Cod Liver Oil is to take are maily
Cromartyshire the whole ship filled as it Kim Sin Theatre, per Mr Ho Kem Tong, devouring sea lands piquangy to a there had been no bulkheads. In order actiole which. Mr LAWRENCE PERRY
to admit of communication through contributes to the World's Work for the vessel compartments must have the British Medical Association is to bo hold in the Sanitary Board Room at 9 December. He sets out to prove that doors These doors, in the days of o'clock this arening. A good attendance travel by sea, thanks to the improve La Bourgogne, were closed by hand. id expected as all members of the medical ments of recent years, is now safer The crew was relied upon to do this in profession, whether belonging to the Association or not, are invited. Two papers, than travel by land, and quotes Cap the event of accident.
ontitled Some pratical uses of Fiore tain SMITH, now of the Adriatic, but
When the Kronprinz Wilhelm, of Acid and Some formerly well known in the Orient as the the North German Lloyd Company, was Statre," will be rand commander of one of the O&O. boats, in 1903, the sen-going public There are routeurs that the Budget is that while his yestol may not be ab- learned how deeply the lessons taught causing a lot el friction in the British solutely unsinkable, he is confident that by the Elbe and the Bourgogne had Cabinet The Chancellor of the Ex-
whatever the wooident, this vessel sunk into the minds of those who design choquer's methods of raising th
are heartily disapproved of by many in the This Wine has been especially put up for us in Reims and will be would not go down before time had been and build ocean greyhounds, and what
Cabinet. It is even stated that given to save the life of every person usa had been made of those lessons. Minister has had to put his foot
found very favourably compared with many high priced wines.
on board."
Captain SMITH can not The bulkhend doors of the Kronpring forcibly of late Still, the
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