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warned to leave it some eight days before he became sick.-Yours, etc.,
F. B. L. BOWLEY,
Secretary, City Hall.
"SINOLOGUE".
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[June 8, 1901.
| Central and Northern fairway. According to the evidence before the Court, his Lordship was satisfied that in practice the Central fairway had existed in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance, but the Northern fairway had, in practice, come to be defined by the Northern *- boundary of the Central fairway-ronghly speak- ing the line of buoys which formed the southern boundary of that fairway and started from it to the ground or channel which was caused on the part of the Glengyle anchorage, which
of the Government are already full, at least we should know what to do. It behoves the heads of this handful of men to make some arrange- ments with the hospital authorities to have a separate room, a separate doctor, and a nurse, whilst there is a Parsee case in hospital, at our own expense, out of our fund. Ye heads of Community, ye know full well we ill afford to lose our men, and if they must die, at least let TO THE EDITOR OF THE us have the melancholy satisfaction of saying that we did our duty by them, and let it not be said we are like the Chinese, who see their
lay between the Northern fairway and the own men fall over, struggle in water for dear | grammarian's or rhetorician's domain. Still | Central fairway. Vessels anchored in it at life, and never stretch a hand all the time to for the regard we all entertain for our mother / their discretion subject, he supposed, to the
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H. 8. K.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS,'
5th June.
SIE, The rebuke administered to the trustees of the Parsee Charity Fund in Hongkong by your Canton correspondent, H. 8. K., in this morning's issue is quite justified as taken in the light of late events, and it is time the heads of the Parsee Community in this Colony bes- tirred themselves, and took such measures as would ensure immediate treatment, nursing, and attendance by a doctor in a separate matshed or room in the plague hospital to any member of their community who is unfortunately attacked by this fell disease. In Bombay, a separate Parsee plague hospital is maintained from the funds specially raised for the purpose, and immediate and constant attendance by Parsee doctors, nurses, and ward boys is given free to all Parsee patients removed there. According to the statement of accounts for the year 1900, issued by the trustees of the Parsee Charity Fund in Hongkong, there is a balance of $29,429.40 standing to the credit of the general fund, and it is from this fund that all necessary expenses for providing for a special doctor and nurse can be defrayed. It is also made painfully evident from the case of the late Mr. D. 8. Gotls of the City Hall, that arrange- ments should be made to have the patient suffer- ing from high fever removed at once to the plague hospital, and immediately put under the care of a competent nurse engaged specially for the purpose, even though plague symptoms may not have appeared. Most of the Parsees in Hongkong are either bachelors or are those who have their families left in Bombay. They are living either in messes of two and three or by themselves. If, therefore, any one of them is attacked with plague, there is no- body to nurse him in the house till plague symptoms appear, or plague germs are discovered in his blood by the doctor attending to him, as the Chinese servant takes to his heels immediately he gets an intimation that his master is down with plague: The late . Mr. D. 8. Gotla would have died like a coolie in his low cave-like room, situated in a retired nook of the City Hall, unattended by any one, had it not been for the unremitting
"DAILY PRESS.
30th May.
SIR,-You have for your columns at present many questions, much more important and interesting than such as may fall within the
regulations of the Harbour Office. This tozgue, will you kindly permit me a little space to ask what right has the word Ninologue in appeared to have been the practice for some twelve or thirteen years. The masters of both. English? We have many logues, it is true-ships had been navigating to this Colony for catalogue, analogue, monologue, prologue,
some fourteen years. The master of the and & host of others--but not one, I believe, signifying a person versed in the Glengyle (Captain Darke) said he was aware of the custom, while Captain Pearse, of the particular ology specified by the first part of the word. No one would think of using in Hangchow, said he was not aware of it. Captain Pearse, as Mr. Francis said, gava hiş English the French forms geologue, asterologue evidence in a fair way, and his Lordship did or Assyriologue. Why then sinologue alone, not for a moment impute to him that he would when all the analogies of the language require tell an untruth, but, at the same time, he (his sinologist, which is just as convenient a word, Lordship) must say that the preponderance of and does not remind us of French? Will it be evidence was that this had been the practice. said that usage, which, according to the Horatian dictum, is the last arbiter and law It was common ground to both parties that and rule of speech, has given its sanction to this was a navigating channel. The Acting Harbour Master said that vessels navigated the foreign-looking sinologue? If so, we have through that channel at their own risk. There but to bow our heads and accept it, as I think was not a true fairway, but he made it quite we must do for the word Chinaman; which, plain that a vessel was not wrong in going however, is a word of good English formation, and hardly deserves the condemnation it has through that channel. received in certain quarters. Sinologue, it is true, is much used out here, but I belive it is rarer in home publications. At any rate, it may not be too late to correct the usage, and save our language from this unnecesary ir. regularity and anomaly, and from the reproach. if reproach it be, of taking a word bodily from the French, instead of forming its own word according to established analogies.Yours, etc.,
PURIST.
SUPREME COURT.
Monday, 3rd June.
IN ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR JOHN CARBING- TON, KT., C.M.G. (CHIEF JUSTICE), AND COMMAnder BlackBURN, R.N., AND CAPTAIN G. C. ANDERSO`; ASSESSORS.
THE RECENT
HANGCHOW COLLISION.
GLENGYLE
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Judgment was delivered on the 3rd inst. in the cross-action by The China Navigation Company, Limited, against the steamship Glengyle, and by Macgregor Brothers & Gow against the steamship Hange how.
Mr. J. J. Francis, K.C. (instructed by Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master), and Mr. E. H. Sharp (instructed by Messrs. Deacon & Hastings) appeared for the Hangchow and the Glengyle respectively.
efforts of the excellent Doctor Harston and the heroic devotion of two of his young friends, who stood by him and nursed him through his delirium the whole of Saturday night and Sunday noon, when he was finally His Lordship said that having regard to the removed to the hospitsi in a state of semi- unconsciousness and collapse.
Lot, therefore, the leaders of the Parsee Community wake up to a sense of the duty they owe to their co-religionists, and concert measures against any future emergency of the like
nature.
D. 8. DADY BURJOR.
The question then arose as to the flying of the pennant. Un- doubtedly the Hangchow was flying the blue pennant. She alleged that she was going up that channel, treating it as part of the Northern fairway. The Glengyle had come down that channel, and as soon as she entered it she hauled down the blue pennant and flew no pennant at all According to the Harbour Office she was right in doing so, but according to Captain Pearse, of the Hangchow, she was wrong in so doing, but his Lordship did not think on the whole that that fact really brought about this collision, or contributed to bring it about. Captain Pearse, in his examination-in-chief said "The house flag on the Glengyle was flying at the main. She had no flag at the fore. I did not specially just then look for anything at the force. Had there been anything I should have seen it. I did not look out at the time to see In other whether her screw was moving." words, his Lordship thought Captain Pearso made it look plain that he did not at the time attach much importance to that point. The non-flying of the blue pennant was not a fanit as the matter went, and the Glengyle could not be held to blame on that account. It was alleged on the part of the Glengyle that she blew two long blasts, one when the Hangchow first came in sight, and the other about two minutes before the collision took place, and between these two blasts there was a short blast given by the Hangchow. The Hangchow people said that they did not hear the first of these blasts, and in regard to the second blast they said it was not a long blast, but was a short blast. The meaning of that short blast would be according to the regulations that the `Glengyle was going to starboard. His Lordship accepted the statement of the Glengyle, and the evidence on the point clearly showed that she would not have gone to starboard. His Lordship then proceeded to deal with the allegations made by each ship in their preliminary acts, and also the arguments of counsel. First of all with regard to the question of the look-out, he was advised by his Assessors that an efficient look- out was not kept on board the Hangchow, and, if such a look-out had been kept, it would have been seen that the Glengyle was under way. There were two or three points admitted by witnesses for the Hangchow, which proper and efficient went to show that a′′] look-out was not kept on board the Hangchow. The first and most important was the mistake that was made as to the position of the Glengyle. The master of the Hangchow said that he took σ | and the Banca to be at the North P. and
buoy. This was not so, for, as a matter of fact, the Banca was at the South P. and O, buoy and the Glengyle was coming by the Mesageries buoy. This was a palpable mistake and probably caused the collision, because he was steering in
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necessity for a speedy disposal of this case, he proposed to deliver an oral judgment, reserving the right, if necessary hereafter, to place the judgment in writing. There was no great conflict of evidence between the parties on most of the points of the case, and the principal points upon which there was conflict were the question of the true boundaries of the Northern fairway and the question of whether one short blast or two long blasts was or were TO THE EDITOR (F THE “DAILY PEES8.”
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was some difficulty created by the inaccuracy of SIB, With reference to the letter of Mr. the provision contained in the schedule of the D. 8. Dady Burjor in your issue of to-day, I Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1891. There must crave space to correct a false impression was no doubt that the provisions of the Or- that might be created by some of his statements. dinance with regard to the boundaries of the The late Mr. D. 8. Gotla, whose loss the Com Northern fairway were repugnant to one an- mittee and Staff of the City Hall very much other, or, rather, repugnant to the provisions of regret, was not living in a " low cave-like room," the Ordinance as dealing also with the Central bnt in a very light and airy room at a good fairway. The result of this manifest inconsis. height above the street level. Immediately he tenoy in the Ordinance was that a vessel in the the Glengyle to be at the South P. and 0. buo felt ill the Compradore reported the fact to me, and I visited him and ascertained that he was in the charge of Dr. Harston and attended by several friends.
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sither the bine Central fairway might fly (Northern fairway) pennant or the white (Central fairway) pennant, and she could not be held responsible law as being wrong for Aying ither of these pennants. The Central by the Ordinance both
I may also mention that the deceased persisted in continuing to occupy his room, although fairyss was
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