April 6, 1901.]
CAPTAIN BROWNE'S CUP.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION. | any mad rush for the boats, and, in the case of an accident involving any possible danger to life, a number of those rafts might be launched at once and kept alongside of the ship with painters, so that even if a bost got swamped or capsized the people struggling in the ses could reach them.
Mr. Cramer recorded his first win in the Long Range Cup on Saturday, the 30th ult. The conditions were 10 shots and a sighter at 700 and 80 yards.
H'cap Total.
The following are the best scores :---
700 800 yde. ds. * Mr. G. P. Lammert... 45 46
• Mr. Cramer
48 43
***
91
91
E=DI88D
87
33 34
84
45 38
83
45 38
83
37 42
79
Q. M. 8 Wallace, E.E. 4740 Mr. J. Pidgeon * Mr. F. Penning
Sgt. Wake Mr. A. Watson
* Winners of spoons.
DE JANEIRO."
On Sunday, 31st March, a race was set down for décision for a cup very kindly presented by Captain Browne, C.f.H., the course being from the usual starting point round Channel Rocks, Kowloon Rock, and the mark-boat on the line twice round, all marks being left to port. Time allowance Y.R.A. scale, ratings to be calculated under the new rule. At gunfire Bonito, Do- reen and Iris were over the line and were recall. ed, thus putting them a long way back. There was a nice easterly wind blowing of nearly whole sail strength, and a very pretty beat up to Channel Rock ended in Alannah getting round first, followed by Bonito and Maid Mariin, the remainder, having overshot their mark considerably, being close together but con- siderably behind. On the run and reach to the mark boat Bonito closed up on Alannah and they THE LOSS OF THE "CITY OF RIO started again for the best on almost leval terms, but Alannah, sailing too well for Bonito, gradu- ally drew ahead and helped by a lift of wind at Channel Rooks rounded them nearly five
The particulars of the loss of the unfortunate minutes ahead. The run to Kowloon and the mail steamer that have come to hand this week reach and run home were uneventful and a fast-go very far to show there were no valid reasons sailed race ended as below:
to blame Captain Ward, or the owners of the ship for having manned her with a Chinese crew. There had been a dense fog all night and on the morning of the accident, and a smooth sea, so that there were no breakers to give warning of hidden dangers, and the vessel was in charge of a pilot who had, no doubt, brought in hundreds of ships. The ship lay to until 4.30 a.m., and Quartermaster Lindstroem gave evidence that the lead had been carefully used while the ship was coming in, and that the soundings taken a moment before the ship struck showed a depth of water more than suf- ficient to float a vessel double the draught Fog signals were given an every possible precaution taken against accident.
Alannah (Winner)
Bonito
Iris...
Maid Marian
Meteor
Erica
Chanticleer
Doreen Ladybird
H. M. 8.
3 23 54 3 28 10 3 30 59 3 33 54 3 34 28 3 36 45 38 4L 39 Q (did not finish)
VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.
Three boat-races came off on Saturday, the 30th alt.funder the auspices of the Victoria Re creation Club, and a very good attendance gathered to witness them. The Hon. Secretary's launch followed the racs, with members of the Club on board. The first event was a ** Picked Scratch Race," with an entrance fee of $1 each,
for which three crews entered :-
Station No. 1, Kornblume-H.W.B. Kennett, A. E. Asger, C. E. A. Hance, R. Lapsley (capt.), F.W. White (cox).
Station No. 2. Rose-M. E. Asger, F. D. Bain, J. Millar, A. A. Alves (capt), J. H. R. Hance (cor).
Station No. 3, Shamrock-C. M. S. Alres, N. H. Alves, F. M. Rosa Pereira, A. E. Alves (capt.), T. Meek (cox).
Rose won by two lengths from Kornblume, Shamrock giving up after coupleting three- quarters of the course.
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The second race was an Arranged Scratch Race," with entrance fee as before. boats were entered :-
•
Three
Station No. 1, Rose-M. E. Anger. A. E. Aager, J. Millar, A. E. Alves (capt.), T. Meek (cox).
Station No. 2, Kornblume-H. W. B. Ken- nett, F. D. Bain, F. M. Rosa Pereira, C. E. A. Hance (cox).
Station No. 3, Leek—N. H. Alves, H. M. Bain, B. Lapsley, A. A. Alves (cap.), F. W. White (cox).
The three boats pulled well together for half a mile, when Rose took the lead and won,
Kornblume coming in second. The winner's
time was 6 min. 17 sec.
The final event was a Tub Scalling Race, for which five members entered-Messrs. J. H. R. Hance, F. M. Rosa Pereira, F. K. Tata, H. W. B. Kennett, and C. E. A. Hance, J.H. R. Hance, who drew Station No. 4, won by two lengths from C. E. A. Hance, Station No. 2. Mr. Denison was starter, and Messrs. W. Armstrong and A. A. Souza judges.
Some of the Corean officials who were recently arrested, as we have reported already, have been sentenced to exile for life, and others for periods ranging up to fifteen years. A few of the more fortunate were set at liberty. The recent troubles in Seoul are said to have been due to the machinations of the clique working in the interests of Lady Om, the Emperor's favourite, mistress, to get her installed as Em- press. Everything is in a chaotic state,
Under the circumstances it strikes one as particularly ungenerous that pilot Jordan, who was saved, should have endeavoured to throw the blame upon the captain who made no at- tempt to save himself, but bravely went down with his ship.
ship had entered the Heads the fogs enveloped Jordan's story is to the effect that when the
her. He notified the captain that it was unsafe to proceed, but the latter ordered him to go ahead. The captain's order was obeyed, and from the moment he took the ship in hand his therein the pilot confesses himself at fault, for authority in all matters pertaining to her navigation was supreme, and he was responsible her. for her safety, and the lives of the people aboard
That there should be some confusion when the ship struck is very natural, and that would have happened on any ship, no matter how well drilled the crew might be, for the drill cannot extend to the passengers;
In any case, the pilot was in command of the ship and we cannot believe that a master of Capt. Ward's high standing and long experi- ence would have acted contrary to the pilot's onders. On the contrary it seems that the ship the accident was due to causes that human fore was navigated with all possible care, and that sight cannot render inoperative, although each caso may offer suggestions how life might have been saved, and such suggestions reflect no dis- all concerned. credit upon any one, but are in the interest of
A couple of thousand dollars would be sufl- cient to provide each ship with such life rafts, anditis evident that the ships provided with them would take the passenger trade from the ship without them. An advertisement to the effect that such and such a ship is provided with life rafts for my 300 or 500 passengers, or whatever the figure may be, and boats for so and so many passengers, would soon tell its story in the receipts.-Eastern World.
best adapted to be carried into practice. Such And the most primitive idea is generally
an idea is suggested by the floating spar, and in many of the modern ships it has been adopt ed, amongst other appliances for saving life, in the shape of life rafts which can be quickly detached. Such life rafts can easily be stowed under the boats, also, when at sea, inside of the bulwarks, and, in various sizes, almost anywhere on board of a ship, and the aluminum cigar cane suggests a very good pattern for life rafts made of light but strong air-tight steel tubes, sheet steel bulwarks could easily be fixed, if on which appliance for the erection of low considered necessary, on both sides, and in which compartments for water, provisions, lights, etc., could as easily be made. Each side, indeed, might, at the outset, be furnished with a low iron handrail which persons struggling in the water might grasp. The mere sight of such life rafts, and perhaps drill with them at the outset of a royage, would inspire passengers with a degree of confidence that would prevent
HONGKONG:
H.M.S. Centurion, with Admiral Sir E. II. Seymour on board, and H.M 8. Alacrity sailed for Shanghai on the 2nd inst., and were fol- lowed by H.M.S. Whiting. The U.S. despatch- vessel Zafiro left for Manila.
The Marty steamer Hating has been sold to the Canadian Pacifle Company for a sum, it is rumoured, of $270,000. She has been pur- chased for the Klondike trade, and will clear for Vancouver in a few days..
The British transport Ula, which is expected to leave for the North on the 9th inst. with a party of the Bengal Lancers, arrived in the harbour on Wednesday forenoon from Calcutta, which port she left on the 21st ult.
Among the departures by the Empress of China on Wednesday were Mr. . Murray Bain, editor and part proprietor of the China Muil, who goes home on a year's holiday, after a very long stay in this Colony, with his wife and daughter.
Among the names of those who left for London on the 30th ult. by the steamer Plassy will be noticed the names of the Hon. W. Meigh Good. man, Attorney-General, with wife and family. Mr. H. C. Nicolle, Government Auditor, and Mr. R. T. Wright, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, with wife and child.
Among the passengers by the 8.8. Stuttgart, which arrived in port on Tuesday from Shang hai, were Major Guondell, Lients. Blomeyer and Robert, Dr. Eggert, and Paymaster Tesch, and German authorities at Peking as invalids, 300 men. They have been sent home by the having been injured more or lesa in various brushes with the Chinese last year and since.
Messrs. Shewan, Tomes, & Co, Agents for the Yangisze Insurance Association, Ld., in. formed as on Wednesday that they had received information that the Directors will recommend at the geueral meeting of shareholders the pay. ment of a further dividend at the rate of 20 per cent. for previous years, and that $50,000 be carried forward to the reserve fund.
at 185. Queen's Road Central, at 9.30 a.m.
An outbreak of fire occurred in a pawn-shop on the 31st ult. It was confined to its place of origin, the second floor, which was almost
known, but the premises are fully insured, the completely burned out. The damage is not yet Hamburg and Bremen Fire Insurance Com pany being involved to the extent of $21,000 and the London and Lancaster to the extent of $4,000-together $25,0). At half-past one the same afternoon the Central Fire Brigade again The alarm proved to be a false one. turned out, this time to 161, Hollywood Road,
loon, to the number of 46, embarked on board the The reserve men of the Siege Train at Kow- P. & O. s.s. Plassy on the 30th ult, at about nine o'clock. They will disembark at Colombo, and await another transport to take them to Cape Town. There will be left at Kowloon about 170 officers and men belonging to the 15th W. and 15th 8.D.R.G.A., and six guns. Two of these, 9:45 in. were secured by the British Government from Austria just after the Kimberly invest-
The Company, however, had the 4'7 in. guns at ment, and they have never ben in netion yet.
the relief of that town The 945 in. guns have a powerful range of over 10,000 yards, and the high- est point of their trajectory is about 20,000 feet. There are only two others in the service, and they are at present in Pretoria. The other four guns are 6in. howitzers, and they were used at Fairde- borg before the surrender of Cropje. Nothing definite is known as to the future movements of the troops now at Kowloon.”
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