TO-DAY'S CABLES.
(Rector's Service to the China Mali)
LAWN TENNIS.
JAPANESE SUCCESS IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.
LONDON, June 20,
UISTIK KINATE.
LORD DUFFERIN SPEAKER.
LONDON, June 20.
Lord Dufferin was elected Speaker of the north Ireland senate.
THE COAL STRIKE.
THE USUAL DISUNITY.
APPEAL BY LEADERS.
LONDON, June 20,
The miners are returning to work in considerable numbers in Notting hamshire and Derbyshire but reports from other areas do not to indicate that the men are resuming. The leaders are urging the men not to break away till the result of the federation's appeal to other unions is known.
SHIPPING.
THE CHINAMAIL.
SHIP'S CHARTERERS TO PAY £200,000.
MOMENTOUS JUDGMENT, ON THE
SPARK.
Horton Hope 300 of Peace River Vermillion Chutes,
Again, for the chasers, it was River from urged that in the cfterparty fire { miles · West was an excepted per "The owners Crossing to were bound under t "contract to 350 Wiles north-east of the insure and that was provisions his same central point, present northam tended to relieve the arteras from terminus of the Edmonton and [liability from any Jegligence of
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
JUST RECEIVED
CONSEQUENCES OF A PROBLEMATIC theirs. In the excepin clause any Dunvegan railway. The boat is 00ft. fire, however cause, must be ins-over all, with a beam of 11ft and 4ft. cluded, even if causeby negligence depth of hall & täurel is built into of charteren' nervaj. Either in the body, giving plenty of room for contract or tort, datges should be the play of the powerful propeller Gruyere Cheese
One of the most striking instances
were
.GENERAL NOTES,
To mark the birthplace of "Sir Francis Pettit Smith, the inventar of the screw-propeller for ships, in 1808, a tablet has been affixed to the Te respondents house in High-street, Hythe.
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Haddocks
Kippers
$130 per Ib. $3.50, ball,
.70
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THE DAIRY FARM, JOE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.
2,750 yards
lately afforded of the great legal conį limited to the naturi and probable and for the twin radders within the sequences which may flow from little consequences of thect, and, must lines of the boat. By this means
both propeller and rudders are prodam At Wimbledon in the first round of the world's lawn-temis champion-thlogs was the judgment delivered by nor be remote.
Mr.Justice Sankey in the King's Beach On the score of repteness of contected, and there are no projections Division involving Mears. Furness, sequence, Mr. Justiceinkey read the to interfere with the phenomenally ship singles, Shimidrü best Hotham, 6-1, 6-1, 6-0.
Whithy and Co., Ltd, in £200,000 dictum of Chief Bon Pollock in damages for the occurrence in the Greenland v. Chaplin, 550, 5 Ec. 243, light draft for so large a craft of bat hold of a ship which they had charter that a person is expeed to anticipate nine inches, with a maximum of not ed of "a spark which could not reason and guard against alleasonable con- more than, 20 inches when the boat ably have been anticipated.”
sequences, but that is not by the is fully loaded, it Arabs in the ship were moving law of England expedă to anticipate When the propeller turns the arched cases of benzine in a hold. As and guard against hat which no cavity in the bottom of the boat is sling of cases went up, rope ar sling reasonable man woulxpect to occur. filled with water, which is hurled knocked a board placed across the He found the cab distinguish-astem with the fore of a hydrualia forward end of the batch into the able. In the presentise, he went on, ram, imparting a speed to the vessel hold. In the hold was petrul vapour, the respondents, the arteres, were of 17 miles an hour. and somehow, the fall of the board ) in possession of the simants' vessel. set it alight and the ship was lost! The respondents* ervants That seems to be the whole story, engaged in the wes of discharg and the judgment is that the charing her, and althongthe finding of terers must pay the shipowners nearly the arbitrators is thithe causing of a quarter of a million for the destruc the park which killed the petrol tion of their ship. Arbitrators had vapour could not reanably have been examined the circumstances, and anticipated from thealing board, I among their findings was this do not think that hat affects the
that the causing of the spark could legal position. not reasonably have been anticipated were in possession the claimants from the falling of the board, though ship; they have be found to be same damage to the ship might rea guilty of negligent and it was sonably have been anticipated; and that negligence wich caused the there was no evidence that the Arabs destruction of the jessel. There is chosen were known, or were likely, a negligent act andconsequent dam- to be negligent.*
ages, which, in the peculiar circum- The case was that of Polemis stances renders the spondents hable. against. Messra. Furness, Withy and It appears to me toe a case of mere Co., Ltd, and came before Mr. Justice damages by neglence of the re- Sankey as a special case from the spandents' servan The words In the House of Commons, Commander Bellairs suggested that the arbitrators on liability of ship's char-enless lost milause 5, do not Government notify China that it is willing to negotiate the return of Weiterers for negligence of their servants excuse the respondets because they The ship was the Greek vessel do not refer to thease of destruction
Thrasyvonlos."
of the vessel by re caused by the Counsel were: For Messrs. Fur respondents' neglience. Therefore ness, Withy and Co, Ltd., who the judge confirm the arbitrators appealed from the findings of the finding that the charterers were arbitrators, Mr. R. A. Wright, KC,Hable, and, on consel's application, and Mr. Porter, instructed by Messrs-granted a stay wit a view to appeal. Downing, Handcock, Middleton and
ANOTHER TRANSACIFIC RECORD. Work on the Hamburg America Lewis; and for the owners, Mr. Mackinnon, KC, and Mr. Dumas, A new record in Trans-Pacific finer "Bayern" is being pushed ahead instructed by Messrs. Holman, Fen-service over the Sithern route was with all possible speed, and it is wick and WiHau.
established when the new Pacific expected to have the steamer ready "Gelen State" which for sailing towards the end of June. Extraordinary precautions are being taken on the occasion of the
The ship was chartered for the war, Mail steamer visit of the King and Queen to Belfast on June 22 to open the North Irish and, st charterer's option, six months left Hongkong onApril 25 entered She is a ship of 12,000 tons dead- Parliament. Nobody is allowed on roofs along the route of the royal after, owners to provide the couple- San Francisco by thirteen days, weight, and will exclusively carry procession. Public houses have been closed. Extensive reinforcements of ment of officers and crew, wages and seven hours and frty-eight minutes steerage passengers. She will be the
storet and to maintain efficient for after leaving Yobhama, exclusive constabulary and military, including the Irish Guards from Aldershot, are
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BRITAIN AND WEIHAIWIL
NO INTENTION AT PRESENT TO NEGOTIATE RETURN.
LONDON, June 20,
kaiwei, Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replied that the Government did not at present propose to take any such action.
arriving
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ROYAL VISIT TO BELFAST.
EXTRAORDINARY PRECAUTIONS BEING TAKEN.
CHINA'S FRESTIGE.
LONDON, June 20.
FROPOSAL TO ABOLISH FOREIGN POST OFFICES.
KEJECTED BY F.O.
LONDON, June 20. In the House of Commons, Commr. Bellairs urged "in pursuance of our historic mission for the encouridement of China" that the government should raise the status of the British diplomatic representative in China to that of ambassador and negotiate with the five other Powers who have post-offices in China for the withdrawal of these post-offices, in recognition Mr. C. Harmsworth replied that it was not proposed to raise the status of the British representative in existing conditions in China nor to
of China as a great power.
negotiate for the withdrawal of the post-offices.
COTTON STRIKE.
TERMS ACCEPTED.
The Blue Funnel steamer "UlyssĞI” recently left Australia for Liverpool with what is claimed to be a record draught, she was drawing 33 ft. for- ward and 32 ft. 8 in aft Her carge was principally wheat and wool.
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The "Wenatchee * bad engine trouble in the Inland Sea and was towed to Kobe by a tug sent from the Mityal Dockyard at Uno. The
West Ison," "of the Struthers & Dixon fine, had also been "dispatched from Kobe to the Wenatchee's assistance and stood by until the big ship entered Kobe. Her repairs were expected to take four days.
cargo service, charterers to re-deliver of time spent Honolulu. Her first German steamer to resume the in good condition unless lost. If lost average speed dung the return" run regular service between Germany
The and New York hire was to cease from that date or was 16.62 knot per hour. the dite when last spoken. Loss or ship's officers stad that the cori-
The Maritime Affairs Committes damage by fire on board was even-sumption" of oil was under that. tually excepted. The charter party generally require for such speed of the New York Board of Trade was Felzuary 21, 1917, and in June The fastest nun improportion to the recommends that the board condemn the ship loaded cement and general distance between ports was made cargo at Nantes for Casa Blanca and from Yokohama to Honolul, the the practice of pumping oil overboard at Lisbon benzine or petrol and iron total time being eight days, nine with bilge by oil vessels entering the for Casa Blanca and other ports. The hours and thirty even minutes, with port of New York, and that the board benzine in No. 1 hold suffered from an average speedof-17,7 knots. Her communicate with the National Board handling or rough weather, so that steaming time Com Honolulu was of Underwriters and offer co-operation there was some leakage and it was four days andtwenty-two hours, a to prevent by legislation or otherwise at Casa Blanca during discharge by record equalledbaly by that of the this practice and to remove this Great Northen which completed serious fire danger from our harbour. Arab workinen and winchmen, sup- plied from shore by charterers' the voyage in ighteen hours under agents, that it was found necessary the time of the Golden Stato." to ship some cases of benzine from
coming in contact with some sub-
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SUPERSTITIONS.
HONGKONG.
STIRRING TO THE RIGHT.
WHAMPAO A PORT.
AMBITIOUS CANTON SCHEME.
If you want to have your bread or HONGKONG CAPITALISTS INTERESTED. cake come out of the oven light always stir the dough from left to
The great shipbuilding and en- gineering works of Vickers at Barów, the lower hold to the 'tween decks, A decrease in the tied-up tog employing 15,000 men, were to close where planks had been placed. One is shown by be returns of the of these placks fell into the hold, Japanese Department of Communica- down in mail week unless the coal of fuel were forthcoming. The with what dire consequences had tions based on investigations made in strike was over and fresh supplies already been told. The charter party, the middle of May. provided for arbitration in case of ber of ships led up is 296, aggre- works were then on short time. The Commr. Bellairs thereupon suggested that the pledge given at the disputes, and the owners asked for gaming 251.47 tous gross. These iron and steel works were already And il the shipyard meeting of allied ministers in August 1917 to do their best to see that damages for total loss of the vessel consist of 2B steamers of 200,792 closed, by fire.
tons gross an 178 sailing ships of ceases operations local industry would Ching enjoyed a higher international status was being violated.
Beside the findings quoted above 50,678 tons goss.
be almost at a complete standstill Mr. Harmsworth replied that he could not discuss this matter by the arbitrators found as a fact that Classified cording to the mate- by question and answer.
the destruction of the ship was by rial of ships, steel vessels mumber Mr. Farrell, President of the United fire, which
arose from a spark 64, totalling 137,654 tons gross States Steel Corporation, addressing right that is clockwise" or "with A party of Chinese capitalists who igaiting petrol in the hold, such spark and wooden ships 332, totalling the Foreign Trade Convention at the sun. Alec in freezing ice cream recently returned from the Straits being caused by the falling board 113,816 tons gross. Of these ves: Cleveland (Ohio) declared that the or churning milk with a crank churn, Selements has been pegotiating with stance in the hold and that the fall Seis, those of tot less than 1,000 tons US. Government sustained a loss always torn from left to right. If the Canton authorities for a charter of the board was caused by the seat number 50, totalling of 300,000,000 dollars through not after turning the crank of a chura to bare Whampao opened as a com negligence of the Arabs. The dao-142,762 for gross. In the 388 selling its merchant fleet to foreigners for a while with the sun" you mercial port. The party is now age which the arbitrators said the bat, as red with the figures when the sunistice was signed. All change and turn it the other verstaying at the Hotel Asia but some owners were entitled to recover was of a month previous, the May
you have done and in making soon leave for Hongkong to consult turns show a decrease of 139 in oummaritime nations, he said were affected you will undo all the churning of the members of the party will gross tonage. by present over supply of tonnage soap if you stir it after a while with the Chinese capitalists in that If the cargo was dangerous, Mr. her and 16,85 in
in an international conference to sun, it will turn back into liye. Any says the Canton Times. A very Wright said the charterers could As will be men from the compara-he therefore advised the holding of from right to left, or against the place inviting their co-operation, only be liable if they shipped it with- tive sunatnes of the decrease out the knowledge of the owners, tonnage, the diminution is largely stabilise the situation. One of Mr. housewife of the old school can tell This superstition is a remnant of and, anyway, the damages were too in regard to small ships which have Farrell's recommendations was the you that, remote for charterers to be held been release to meet the slight in-chartering of Government ships to
sun-worship and the movement from crease in costing, "and near-sea stup-individuals.
left to right is what is called the Remoteness of damage, Mr. Macments. In fact, while the decrease
ceremonial circuit. Not only in kinton replied, was differently judgin steel shijs is only nine, wooden
stirring cake but in dealing cards do ed in cases of contract and tort. In ships show I decrease of no less than contract breach the amount was 130.
we preserve the "ceremonial circuit" moved when celebrating his rites, though it would seem much more either at Heliopolis or Stonehenge. limited to the natural consequences
natural to deal the other way. Bar Stirring from left to right is merely the ceremonial circuit" is the path an unconscious, inherited form of direction in which those processions cake, or your game of bridge, cornes of priests and people, his votaries, out in a satisfactory manner.
TRADE DOES NOT WARRANT BETTER.
LONDON, June 20.
The executive of the operative cotton spinners union have issued a circular in Manchester unanimously recommending the acceptance of the terms arranged last week. They declare that in the present state of trade better terms are impossible.
THE HOBHOR IN IRELAND.
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THREE MORE VICTIMS.
LONDON, Jube 20.
The bodies of three military officers, recently kidnapped whlie walking at Fethard, were found near Clonmel to-day. They had been shot.
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of the breach; in tort, if it was
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SAFE, SURE, ALWAYS CURES. Do not suffer from cramp colic or pain
in the stomach when Uhamber lain's Colic and Diarrhes Remedy goes A boat of novel design has been to the right spot savi gives immediate rellet. You cannot afford to be without ed to cause any damage, the person guilty was reponsible for the damage, the Hudson Bay Company, to bed. For sale by all Chemiets and however unexpected.
used during this season on the Peace Storekeepers.
local authorities embodying the con- extensive scheme is presented to the struction of a harbour for the accom- modation of ocean vessels.
a negligence which might be expect launched # Vancouver, B.C., for you are subject to attacks of this in which the sun-god moves and the invoking the sun-god to see that your.
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I'D RATHER GIT SOAKED WITH WATER THAN WITH
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