FUNNELS AND FLAGS.
CAPTAIN FINED.
At the Marine Court yesterday, beforn Commander Basil R. H, Taylor, R.M., Harbour master and Marine Magistrate, L.B. Winter charged F. Flugel, raster of the Gorman steamer German a, with leaving the harbour without having obtained a port clearance, on the 4th January last, and carrying more then 20 passengers, and also with not having his dangerous goods properly stowed. The charge was proved and a fine of $20 was impcand, The captain sail he did not discover there Atearner had nal.ed.
was found that the roll of the ment is See bar, which in her ordinary condition rolled through an aro of 30 deg., was reduced to about 1 deg., without any shock or jarring to the ship. As soon as the gyroscope was put in motion the immediato effect was to stop the rolling and enable the vessel to run on a practically even keel. Contrary to expectation, there was no tendency for sens to break on beard over the weather side. Indeed the Sea-bar rose steadily and evenly to the saas It was calculated that the half-ton gyroscope on board was capable of chee- aking the rolling motion when the waves in or dinary circumstances would have caused
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 26rH, 1907.
SHIPPING AND THE WORKMAN'S COMPENSATION ACT.
A LEGAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE Times
WRITES:
The Workmsa's Compensation Aut of last Session and ita effect upon the cureholder. the tradesman, and the business world in general has been a good deal discussed of late, but little prominence has been given to its connexion with the shipping industry and all who are interested in ships and seamen, importance and far reaching nature been appreciated by those that go down to the sox in ships and those who employ tent.
| might easily average over £200 per head of the crew. Among some races the value of human life is not very high, and the minimun com- pensation of £150 for widow and family in case of death might even prove a cause for promot ing scaidents which might be attended by fatal results to European travellers as well as to the self-sacrificing Oriental.
was no clearance until some time after the vessel to roll through na are of 54 day The Probably the the Act has scarcely yet After all, the presence of the defendant within
REBUILDING OF MAN FRANCISCO,
Something like seventy-five to eight five verwin are now affoal, Tho Engineering Timer waps, with cargoes of building material for the Cement and rebuilding of San Francisco. structural steel comprise the bulk of these cargoes. There are likewise large quantities of
effect of this in adding to the comfort of voyagora at son could be easily imagined. With regard to the application of the gyros. William depo to vidinary role, Six White thought shipbuilders ought to proceed gradually, beginning with yachts and passen- gar steamers employed on casting and cross. The Hamburg American Channel services.
WORKMAN EMPLOYED ABROAD.
pressed brick, time, and terra cotia, The tonuuga.Company bad decided to make an experiment and here, as in the case of other emplo11 it has, where there is not an owner available,
the touch varies from 100 tons to 5,
with a total of about 349,0 tour Thom LOCK, M vessels come from all parts of the world. Twenty versity alone hail from Antwerp loaded with cement; others from England, France, Norway, Japan, Italy, Germany, Australia. Vessels from American Allantin parts made up a portion of forced concrete buildings have been let. As yet this larga feat. Many contracts for large rein. for buildings have commences on account of the scarcity of cement and steel. The arriva of the float is therefore anxiously awaited, when San Francisco will witness the greatest ares of building construction the world has ever seen.
A MISUNDERSTANDING, On Monday Mr. Hazelend inposed a fius of 86 upon a baring house runner for being on bear the . Holving without permission. At the faring defendunt pleaded the he had her asked on beard by the compeadors whose atlitede provoked sin comment from the magistrate, Yesterday Mr. Daniel, from the office of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Mater, appeared at the Magissey and applied for a re-bearing on the ground that he had evidence in prove that the man had moved the permission of the captain before going on board. Mr. Hazeland aid the polien summons ought. 1c Le withdrawn in these circumstances but Mr. Daniel I said there were facts which he wish brought to light is Worship tomarked that there bad evidently been, a misunderstanding. The compradore could not speak English and the captain did not understand wht. I was The rabarig was trying to explain to him. fixed for to-day to slow the captain and chief
officer to actod.
A TALE OF THE YEA
The story of a thing boat having been run down by a steamer and five of the crew drowund We reported to the Hongkong polica yesterday by the solitary snevivor. Chau Kwok Yan, the murder of the feling beat, stated that the ther members of the crew were members of his family, About right o'clock on the night of the 23rd inatsu when trawling under two sails of Po Irug Wen with a light in the foremost they became aware of the appreach of a two funnelled sicamer. The unknown steamer, which was going east, did not seem to notice their presenos and on the danger became imminent the crew of the fishing beat burni torches and called "save life" but without attrseting the desired atten- tion. The inevitable happened, Tho xteamer crashed into the small boat and cut her in two. Even then no notice was taken and all the occupants were left struggling in the water. The master held up bis father until three o'clock bat becoming exbarsted he had to let him go. The old mun immediately sack. The master, who had not seen any of the others after the collister, kept Limeeli sfloat by clinging to w sail till mix o'clock on Wednesday when he was
Hable
to
Apart from its special provisions with regard to ships and their crews the Act applies in general to employment on board ship just ne mach as to employment of any other description, with one of their steamers employed in the the Act does not lay down any limits within passengers-rvice between Hamburgand pleasure which an accident must take place in order to resorts on the German coast. In ceean-going give rise to a claim for compensation. The passenger steamers the adsuntgen of gyroscopes opening words of the Act are perfectly general would be les important than in smaller vessels.If in any employment personal injury by tint the experiments showed conclusively that accident arising out of and in the course of gyropcapes could be designed within permissible thus employment is caused to workman, his finits of size and weight which would exercise a
employer shall be sengitis stadging effect upon even the largest passenger steers. For warships the possible spplications of gyroscope were numerous, and the advantages of a steady gnu platform were great. It might be anticipated that experiments would be made before long with gyroscopic ins in dentrogere and in the smaller classes ervidors. It would arloabfelly be possible to seente greater steadiness of gain platform by means of gyroscope apparatus, although it was hvjous that the great moments of fentia and I getrenntric heights would ressitats the installation of large and powerful gyroscopes For the fo secure adequate extinctive power. prosent purposes it was only weessary to say that Dr. Sellick's system opened up possibilities for the future in regard to controlling the rolling motion of ships at ses which have not bear approached hithert (Cheers.)
of
sccident
30
his 10
valet
SDY
tima
Court of
REMEDY AGAINST THE SHIP. Since section 7 shows that Parliament bas not limited the scope of its saatment by ordinary territorial considerations, it seems quite possible to attribute to it an intention to make its power felt in an even more world-wide manner than has been hitherto mentioned the jurisdiction of the Court is not so important from the point of view of the plaintiff as the #hich his presence of some property nt of claim can be satisfied. Parliament has indeed provided special procedure of a personal cha- racter for alnimé, in respect. of uncidents te members of the crows of shipa of which the owner or manager is within hail, but in section gone a step further and provided a remedy against the ship itself whenever she can he found within the territorial waters of England. or Ireland. Isant this in injustice to Scotland? If it in alleged that the owners of Buy ship are able as snel owners to pay con pensation nader this Act, and at any pay compensation." Unless the Courts can introduce some limitation that ship is found in any port ar river of based on general principles, them is nothing to England or Ireland or within three miles of limit the operation of the Act to employment the coast thereof, a Judga of in the Unite Klagdom, and to du se menid record in England or Ireland may, upon its It can hardly being shown to hit by any person applying involve curious reunits. suppose that the Legislature intended that in acordance with the rules of the Court an Englishmen taking his valet with him that the Ders are probably liable as sach to to Paris should be liable not for the pay such compensation at that none of the owners resids in the United Kingle, issue result recording as to whether the accident took and order dirreted to any offer of Customs, or other offer mamed by the Judge, require plen within or without the thresmik limit forming the boundary of territorial jurisdictioning him to detain the siap until such time as
the owners, agent, master, or consignee there So long as the employer is in the United King dom and amenable to the jurisdiction of the of bare paid such componeation
or givra Court theres a reason why any workman security to be approved by the Judge to abide
The event of any proceeding that way I employed by him should not have the protection of the Act, and it seems quite probable that the institured to frever such componation, and linbility will artually exist with regard to every e-ts as may in awarded thereon, and any such
oliver of Customs or other offleer te who workman employed by an epicyer who is with Sir John Thornycroft, while admitting the in the United Kingdom whatever may be tàn possibilities of the gyrosers, did not consider part of the world in which the workman may that ships were likely to be seriously affected actually he called on to work. It would th by wars provided that their period of oscillation cover the workpeople of all the numerous British dig nor coincide with the wavelength: companies which employ Inhour foreign But in such circumstates hymnus wild-
deuntries (Such as Argentina cailway cou.
panios.) be of undoubted salon i. checking tolling.
It is clearly within the right of the British Geveral Sir John Stirling believed that the
could be usefully imployed in Parliament to imposes on an employer liability #yroscope checking the beet and this rolling cutters, for all employ's wherever they may be as a Electrical storage batteries might be employed condition of residence in this chatry, and the in such cases to furnish the active power to employer being here the liability osa he enforced against him in our Court just as cau operats the gyroscope.
Professor Lan hert said the gyroscope would any other liability for which legal proceedings undoubtedly
valable in steadying a ship may be maintained. In this connexion it mest but he would like to know smithing as to the not to forgotten that the presence of the probable offer of the apparatus in equally defendant within the jurisdiction is, after all, the great test of his ability to be sued in our weather, when a ship might be subjected to a sudden lurch. He rather thought it would Courts, the locality in which a cause of action require great cars and attention in its use. He may have arisen is a matter of small importance. pointed out that the energy necessary to control There can be no question that the majority of the rolling of an ordinary cross-Channel steamer persons employed on board a ship come within. world be about 50,480, food tous, or what was the definition of workmen, and, as a rule, every rughly, the equivalent of the muzzle-energy of owner of a ship is the employer, or one of the an, shell. He did not know if the Board of employers, of every member of the crew, and Trade ficials would contemplate with quant liable to be sued in this country or mity the setting up of an apparatus with that com
iz
any
the order is directed shall detain the ship accordingly.
If the owner of a ship is a corporation it shall for the purposes of this section be deemed to reside in the United Kingdon if it has sa Loffee in the United Kingdom at which writs
can be sorted:
lu any legal proceeding to reccser such car- pensation the person giving security shalt be male defendust, and the production of the order. cf the Judge made in relation to the security shall be renelusive evidence of the liability of the defendant to the proceeding,
port,
and
** to
of
The
energy in passenger steater, with the possibi cu where he may chance to be for wagen! might be by proceedings in rem, but in
lity of its brenki gloves.
Sir William White: Is that your estimate of what would he required in a Channel NiAmer?
Professor Lambert said it was only a rough mental calculation, but he estimated a gyroscope of sixteen tone, with a peripheral speed of 500ft, per second, would be necessary.
Sir William White disented from this
ther excessive,
by the crew. This being the case, there does not appear to be any reason why such an owner, if within the jurisdiction, should cut also be liable to have a claim for compensa tion made against him and enforced in the County Court or Sheriff's Court whenever member of the new of his abip is iscapacitated or killed by accident arising <nt of and in the course of bis employment.
It
Tany
fi will be seen that this provision extends the Act to prery ship in the world, and Eus the Act may have been intended to apply to every nation s long as the remedy can be enforce in the United Kingdom. If there is an owner available, the claim must be a personal one, but if there be not any owaar within the juris diction, then a plainant may proceed in tras
There is a possiblity that section 11 was intended only to cover; the case of a claimaci. sing out of some accident which happened in
which
caimunt's chance only
recovering compensation
view of the world-wide character of the earlier provisions section 11 may be held to extend the Act in all ships which trade with the United Kingdom.
be a somewhat dangerous stretch of its jurisdiction, but it is within the power of the British Parlia- ment to make the right to the trade with the United Kingdom subject touch conditions as it thinks fit, and it can hardly be said that it is APPLICATION TO FOREIGNERS.
*xceeding its rights if it imposes on owners If the amenability of the employer to the who, save ouder stress of weather or other Conris be the les emergenry, send their ships within the territorial of applicability of the Act to him and his waters of its domioisas the condition that they workmen, then the Act a plice to the work. stall grant to their crew the "like benefits lo men employed by any foreign corporation those which Parliament, has conferred upon the which has an office in the United Kingdom, erses of ships owned by its own subjects. Since If a foreign cerperation Lires an office and any ship trading with the United Kingdom puts up its me to siguify that it is carry may at any time ship seamen from our ports, it ing cu businers at such office, then so far is only right to secure to them and their families, as the corporation can reside it is resident as far as peasible, the a me rights which they as the offee and may be served with legal would have had on board English ships, so that, Tut the Home of Lords even though the Act so far as it affects shipping process there.
eld that the French Transatlantic company may lock like an attempt by Britannia to ente which owned the ill-fated Atlantic liner the waves, such attempt may be fonude-apot a Borg was resident stis efice in London, though other steamship companies shared that office and the agent in charge was merely paid by commission. pation of a stand at a motor show at the Crystal Palace, with an agent in chargą ta explain the exhibit and take orders was held to be enificient to constitute reside294.
rescued by a fiabing bout off Waglan Light- estimate as beind other speakers pointed to; jurisdiction of our
Lease. He was taken to Shaukiwa where ko was attended to. 1te bent was valued at $1,440). The survivor added that the moon was becured by a clind but he could distinguish that the Funnels were not black put yellow.
UKEBAN CUMPETITION IN THE SHIPPING TRADE.
A freight war in the shipping trade between Kw York and Australia bad New Zealand! is threatened through the competition of two Gemon shipping companies. The Proton trade-is-carried by a "conference,** includes such British Eneses Buck all Brothers, Iszerr, the Federal Line and Hendr Brothers and such Aprica radjaters as H. W. Perky
R. W. Cameres and Co, Arkell Last and Dinglas, and Mailker and Querezu. year the sailings between New York and Australasian posts Drakerd $4, of which,
ike English lines took We beliere,
ገብካ 13 15. and the American
A short Hausa bila age to German lines the Company of Bremer, and the German Australian Steamship Company, of Hamburg cast envious eyes upon this shipping frady Bad proposed to enter the Anglo-American con ference and take part in the sailings. These Gorman empanies wanted four or five sailings year to be allotted to each of them, rather & stantial share in a total annual trade of 34 lings. At present wo understand that the merican bouses eirongly resent the German trusion, and that the British lins-with the reption of Tyzeralo resent it. The Tizer se las, however, joined with the two German and los just announced the dates of of thren versels (two Gervas and our e) from New York to Australasia. The fof the joint
General enterprise Anglo- Tnited Tyzer Line. The first German to sail is the Truntentels, which was ed to leave New York on April 20. ite war of rales against her has yet Pared by the American and the British 더 of the conference (other than Tyre), but is every reason to believe that they wil no to be squeed ut of their business
We stall the to way for Gerdian bavusual devastating freight war, duaier whites will be carried from New York to Austin at much lower rates that these ralism this s country, and British manufac tarer be peunlized in competition with thoiriean rivale.
N
be
K
VENTION OF SEA-SICKNESS,
Professor
•Mike's the possibility of the proscope in certain conditions to set in increasing the roll, perhaps to a dangerous extent.
Prefessor Cremieu, of the University of Paris, illnetrated the Iessibility of the gyroscope to take on a rolling motion which might capsize a ship, and he descaled a prodalum of his owa invention which he said would effectively control reling without any of the rks of the pisserpe, and Klick weid heerly anteziatic and rquie zo power to drive it.
Sir Willim White, camming to the dis- cussie, said he was convinced that there was nothing but good in Dr. Schlick's apparatus. Sir John Thornycroft bed recognised the merits of the invention, and had arranged that the Fee-hur should be brought to London, so that members could examine the apparatus for themselves. (hear, heart. She was at the West India Locke, and members con't go down aid have the whole thing explained to them. Thecritically the dangers pointed out wight arise, but in practice the save condition which might bring
them about were never encountered. and the theoretical ductions, therefore, did apply. He believed the Heard of Trade officials would be quite prepared to face the risk of putting on kourd & jassenger steamer the appliance which Professor Lunitert appeared to regard as deadly and dangerous. (Hear hear, and laughter.)
not
RUSSIA IN MANCHURIA.
The evacuation of Manchuris is now com
at a
Even the reQU-
Thus, if residence of the employer be the test of liability ander section 1, every foreign ship ping corporation which has an office in the United Kingdom would be liable to all its work- men-that isto practically every person employed B a meber of the crow of ary of its ships, in whatever part of the world they may be. That Parliament should have thought right to enuet a law to pregnant with international possibilities might seem sufficiently improbable to make it incumbent on the Courts, if
possibi to arrive different conclusion, and to imp se sou territorial imitation upon the applicability of the Act. Any such suggestion of this kind is, however, at oner dissipated by the express pru. visions of section 7. which seems to show that the Legislature actually intended to make the presence of the emploper within the United Section Kingdom at least 13 principal test.
commences with the provision. This wasters, men, and Act shall apply to apprentices 10 the ses service and appren that such persons are tices in the ses fishing servic provided
crew of any ship registered in the United meaning of this lot and are numbers of the Kingdor, or of any other British ship or vessel of which the owner, or if there is more than one owner the managing owner or manager, resides or has his principal place of business within the United Kingdom, subject to the following modifications. These modifications relate merely to promlure and simidiory
the The important point is What are matters and do not affect the present subject.
workmen within the
usonable tesis. It is, however, only fair that the owners of ships which any come to our shore skanld know of their liability beforehand, in order that they may wear themselves by insurance against claims under the Act, and should they desire to avoid the possibility of detention for any such claim, that they may aroge to have an office in the United Kingdom at which such claims may be made.
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Another treaty is on the eve of conclusion between the French and Sismess Governments. It is in some sort a corollary to the two tretian to which M. Delcase appended his signature in 1908, anl, as the Sinnere erornment is said to bave noted quite spontaneously in this lust master, and to be fully autisted with the bew arrangement, it is hoped that all friction will henceforth disappear, and that the two neigh TALKING bours will be on the best of terma to the end of time, the more so as we are hearing little of
There are th yellow peril" towadays. lias of the treaty. Siun cedes to Franer the
to
outliness
Haftaubaug, Siam Hemp, and Sispion of
and
French citizous and protégés are allowed to puzetan land all over Siames territory. France, on her side, restores the Kratt and Danusi districts to Siam. The conoission to France on the right bank of the Mekong is thum formed into a lesse France also agrees to certain juridical radifications which wil prove of advantage to Siam in her negotiatious
with other Governments,
Such is the tenour of the treaty, which is giving compluta calisfuction bare Fistiesel Rite solution of a ustion which threatened at one time to erents very serious-compltentions, Things were looking very black indeed he fore the Treaty of 18-which was practically wrong from the Sismese-was concluded, nor did matters assume a fairly reassuring turn for soutine distraule, as there we
in this treaty which England could not necept, and laborious negotiations were necessary before the and Franca comid agree as to their respective spheres of infinnes in Siam. The buffer State thenry was not popular here, but the late Lord The two Dufferin finally gained his point. treaties of 1904, which followed after a long interval, restored tranquility in a situation which was egein fast threatening to become adute, and now, ne I have remarked, great things are anticipated from this nawand conclusivearrange. ment. The French certainly hate no reason to oriticico an agreement which virtually adds three rich provinces to their possessions in the Inds. Chinese peninsula. Rice is grown in abundance, and the revenue derived from taxaticu is by no means to be despised. The town of
f Battambang alone is said to have a population amounting to 50. As a set off to this very important con
rein the Sinrosse are represented as being eager for the restitation of Kratt and Danesi, the are so as the occupation of the latter district by the French shut them out from all com munication between the basis of the Upper! Mean and Mokrog river. Now they will have their way. Only it will be remembered that the French got Kratt in 1904 in exchange
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Chenaben, which they had held as a sor her legs a an independent country, and of hostage since 1893. Anyhow. Siam is stili this is more than might have been expected fourteen years ago. There is an idea that the King of Siam may revisit Enrope in the coune of a few months.
Later.
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AND
RECORDS.
NEW STOCK JUST ARRIVED.
LARGE AND VARIED ASSORTMENT
MUSIC:
LATEST COMIC OPERA SCORES
AND
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JUST AREIVED.
Hongkong, 9th November, 1903.
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their images of the Buddha. Next to Boro- boccer and the two great pyramids of Gises. Angkor Wat, which las to-day passed into the hands of the French. is probably the most gigantic structure ser raised by bulan hands. so appreciative a people as our neighbours across the Channel,"
It is well that its furture is to be cared for by
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
MAY BECOME PART OF THE OUTFIT OF
ERRY STEAMER.
Mr. Babington Swit s'cretary to the General Post Office, gave ovidence before a Selvet Committes of the House of Commons O the Radioteigraph Convention.
It is just afirmed that the treaty was signed
Having given the committee a description of at Bangkok as evening.
the apparatus in me, the witness said that The news that the Siamese Government hasignals and actually teen leonauittel scross the consented to ende to Frange thres provinces bordering upon the French colony of Inde: Atlantic, but in the press state of the system Chips is of little importance to the rest of the munication could not be maintained with work, except that there thus passes into theglarity over such long distances, especially possessio of France the renowned temple of during the daytime. The maximum effective Angkor Wat. Without going so far as a recent range was from 1 to 1.5 miles possibly more but the stato of a Blairs was changing traveller who has declared that it is
almost from menth to month. noblest monument raised by the hands of man, we may well congratulate our friends upon their
new treasure,
the
As regarded ordinary abip and shore stations, the range varied between 50 and 200 miles, according to the power of the shore station. So far, no satisfactory method of confining the sound waves to the particular direction required Lad been invented.
The general use of wireless telography bo considered, was on the increase, but in the present state of the invention he did act think it was likely to compite with, or supersede, the use of cables in Transatlantic commanica
There would be an extensive Geld for ita ase in Irantlantic communication, but he to.
thought it would be as a subsidiary process cables, and not, so far as he could so at present, iu substitution.
The temple is built in s most inaccessible spot about fifteen kilometres north of the large Cam bodian lake of Tonle Sap, and for many reasons is almost outside the region open to even on energetic traveller. It is perhaps easiest for a visitor to make his way from Sagra to hem peah, and then take one of the trading busts Mme. Emms Etmes, the famous singer, born which from February to May ply between the The lowuess of the et Shanghai, is suing for divores against her capital and Siemreap. Lusband, Mr Julian Story, in consequence of water for the rest of the year makes a long and an ine dent which happened during this winter uncomfortable land journey necessary. on the ecension of a magnificent masquerade Angkor Wat stands in its own jungle, and given by Mr. Story at Philadelphis. As he kuedeep in its own sacred pools, and faces the was himself nowell at the time he asked Mae. west. In plan it is about 270 yards in breadth Ermes to come over from New York and act as by 330 yards in length. This is the cuter!
ir corridor, supported on square pillar, Mme. Fumes, who was, of course, masked, and wis mistaken for a certain rich and beautiful, surface the exquisits soulptures in low relief biladelpbian laily by two of the lady guests which are the glory of the place. Both side who revealed to her, it is stated, an extraordin. of the gallery are thus carved with strongly ary story of her husband's infatuation for the designed and delicately executed rerues often the gossipers fed, but 31me. Eames insisted Egypt, or, as Mr Thompson has pointed out its advantages against uutis in dangers lady in question. On discovering their wistsbe strangely like the carvings at Abydag in upon an explanation from her busband, and on in is excellent description of the temple failing to obtain it, separated fra him those of Assyriu. This form of monts mural iromediately.--Central News.
bostise
SPEEDY STEEPLECHASERS. If anyone doubts the superiority of the
Ta the event of war, of course, it would become Fery valuable. At present the main use was
galerteíning upon every part of ith wall confined to communication with shits The
of
tem provided entirely new facilities, and it had been principally made. was in that. conavelion that the day lepmont
were to become part of the outfit of every
teamer.
"Vessels" comprised lu the latter part of the thoroughbred horse of to-day over his predeces.abent 6ft in height so far as I can remember acceptance and transmission of telegrams.
other British ship or
plete; and Russia has accepted her fate, wth cut any of that underhand prozrastiuation vad dilematic delay in which her statesmen ar past-wasters Perhaps nothing could show cro completely the greatners of her fall For well over a century he had cherished dreams #f dominion in the Far East. Captain Cook's officers met her emissaries in the Beliring
Teplying to a question as to inther he ex-
Straits, und a few years
afterwards thers wes
ship would be greatly extended, witness said Grindade laku alten the whole of that even a shadowy hope that Slavonic sway night
rcted thus of wireless telegraphy on beard
Californian Pacife slope which the last effets
became more realised. Lo quite expected its use would to mush extended, sad would not be sar Spatilards were still holding with nerveless
deccration is characteristic of tropical Buddhist prised if an installation of wireless telegraphy gors. Russia was indeed, driven back from
temples. Bera-bodoer, the gigantic temple in the Averies. But that has only cor solidated her
middle of Sure, shich is as eron vast-r piece grip
of Asia: and when the late Caar begon the
of har:an construction faan Angkor Wat, has
The primary object of the Berlin Convention consraction of the Tra continental Railway,
cut upon the fire concentric galleries which
was to accelerate ship-and-shore ecmunication, which sent out feeders south and east, the whole
embrace the pyramidal structure & strip first of all by international rales governing the continent north of the Himalayas scored to fall But the entas- directly under Russian role.
most exquisitely delicate rarving in deep relief
The Chairman. If the Marconi monopoly trophic encounter with Japan has ended all hopes
and over three miles in length, No wonder
were established would it not ensure the re- of sauering Chion. If Bussian statesmen are above provision, "
is, they will ex guise that that chapter of vosrel of which, &c. It seems clear that sors of a generation of twongo, the records of tho
Grand National ought to remose bis scepticisms that Sir Stamford Rafiles exclaimed that the
-in 1838-this race building
of the Great Pyramid was a work of teation in the hands of a British ComEGGY
of wireless Nearly seventy yours ugo- national history is at an eat. Their proper "ress-1" is not limited to British vessels if such a
Mr. Babington Smil replied that threa
iris talegraphy? Course in Asia Acw is to preserve what they have word as distinct from "British slip" as 5 was won by Lottery, a wonderful horse in his human labunt far less than that of the masona
day in sec. under 15min, Nearly 13min. was
wan of Boro-bodeer.
things
had to be taken into consideration. retained, but to set their faces sternly against praning, bat comprises all reesels of which the
day, OwHur managing
Inside the mansyer avarxation of further territory; and to assist the owner
Lider,
& second, rather more than one- the average time notil 1844, when Creall wor or has his principal place of
in min. 417sec. In the sixties and sevention Angkor W. Breat court thus formed at First they had to decide whether the Mar- rest of Europe and the Japanese in maintaining
United Kingdom. The
A law camp of coni system was, and was likely to remain, fourth in area, is formed upon the pen door in China. But if they endeavour to business bald up again what has already fallen, they may first of these alternatives is probably the there was a marked improvement in speed, farth and stene, The gallery from is still the best system. Secondly, was there no other although the average duration of the race was most importeat, for, has beez seu have to encounter a still worse crisis at home
He feared they wontlu policy of a menopoly, case of Le Bourgue, a foreign about 1min.; up to 1690 the time never fail preserved with pyramidal 10were of slight Britiel company deserving of consideration;
all meet with objections. the See-bar, o merly a first olsss torpado bost then they have just passed through. And there in the
are signs that it will used a great and aaited corporation "resides" at any office it may have below limin, and often exceeded 11min.; but elevation at the corners. One within this and thirdly, was it possible to carry out the
dominates the landscape for miles, overhangs
Replying to chairman's qustion as to what application of the
effort to keep Chius from closing her markets in the United Kingdom. The Act therefore since that year the time has seldom been outsids second ceart the central building, that which the visitor. It is square, about sixty r gyroscope in the divigation of torpedoes has to the world.—Globe.
appears to apply expressly to the crew of
Avery
In 1893 Cloister simply romped in. winning seventy yards each way, and frour each corner would be the rosult if Great Britain devided Daval
ship owned or managed by a foreign corporation architecture, long been a sengeplice of
although be carried the extraordinary weight but Dr. Schlick was the first to use this butment to check the rolling of ordinary which takes all events that happen to him or
The personality of overy man is that in him which by having an office resides in the United by forty lengths in a canter in 9min. 42 2. rises a lofty pyramid. Io the centre is a court not to ralify the Convention; the witness Kingdom, and in every such case the spring of 12st 71b.; and six years later Manifesto divided into four an intersection of which There was no reason to think that any of
colonnades, at the soreraft. The Seebar was åtted with a gyros come within the range of his knowledge, ali modifications as to procedure apply. cope, which, in efect, was simply a fy-wheel, ideas he entertains or has entertained, all international importance of ench a provision is equalled Cloister's record by carrying 121st. to be undesi spire. This at one time reached the three countries would refuse to ratify it,
victory. kus, within fifty-five years, the diameter of experinces he hae or shall have, and binds all
very great when it is remembered how many weighing bill too, having one mètre, s pripheral speed of 2:4 ft. these past and present, neat and remoto, similar foreign shipping companies have branch offices duration of this race was reduced by well over a height of over 20ft, and upon it and the sad if Britisin refused to do se, British ships 5min.; so that Cloister ought to have been able four attendant epires thora ia the richest and stations might be subjected to interference
The committes adjourned. drate of revolution of and diverse, into one continnous wholɔ which he in this country. The Bubility is not a trifisg to give a start of a mile and half and have carving, and innumerable recozade still retain by foreign ships and stations, 1,660 times per minute. With this instru
beaten Lottery over the Grand National course.
Thetation of Naval Architects has devotediting to the cousideration of the applica f the gyroscope to the steadying of Vassels ngh water, and the cousiquent winim the distress usually suffered by Jandemengo due to the sea in ships.
Sir W White, late Chief Constructor
Wary, read
a paper based on experimenducted by Dr. Dito Schlick on the application of gyroscope apparulus te control and fult the rolling motion of ships wher, exposed to the action of oc Waw-s. board These experiments were carried out
to the
in the German Navy.
Bor second,
The
calls his life.
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jone, and in case of loss of a ship with all handa
10min.
is
said that in any cases it would come into force.