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up. He noticed that the On Ice was coming towards him at nearly right angles, at a rate of about 4 or'a knots. He certainly did aut exned to see the PROCEEDINGS AT MARINE COURT.
On Ler there, as he expected her to stop The recent entisini helgen the Hong-when the M. N." signal was hoisted kong, Cantors, and Macao Steamboy: ComHe saw the Captain of the Ol Lre, with pany's steamer-Tajchen and the Sze Yap
* number of pasengers, on the bridge, Company's mer On Les found a sequel
Be did must know, he thought the engines of the De fee were pu; astorn. The On at the Mairias Court yesterday, when the own and the tunster (Mr. B. A. Birse)
Lee struck the Tuiskan with considerable
master of the On bee, with beaking collision Th Harbour Regulations. occurred between the two ships in the Western Examination Anchorage.
into the examination ground..
6.27.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY. AUGUST 21ST, 1915.
which indicated that the vessels were to | HONGKONG SHARE MARKET. take their way off and to come close to Messrs. Verrat & Smyth, in their This general weekly share report dated the 20th the examination launch. phieties was very well known to the skip Auga. Frie:
The market for all investment looks pera afi buats end reprcially to the skip- When he
has rated fairly active during the past. pers of the Macno beats hoisted the "M.N." signal the Taishan
further appreciation on these last quoted. was about 500 or 000 yards away, and, and prices in must instances show 1 the speculative sretion, business has the On Lee roughly 100. which was really means for hoth, was been somewhat fitful, and prices erratic, kept up for a space of farve minutes.
The signal.
The
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approaching August settlemera, the tone GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTING
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of the Taishan charged James Willos: fort abort the starboard Pangway, ut When ships were coming in this way the owing doubtless to the influence of the i at the elese after-weakness, being firmes about 4 knots, as for as he could judg.,luding ship, bad the preference,
Tuishan was the leading ship in this one nhout.
for Douglases and Sagars, but with eat!- cenrred The edlision
tinued want of strength in respect of the examination and he dealt with her first. The Taishan
Ines Shortly before that
Tulos, which have been launch backed steru, otherwise she would answered, the signal with a code pendan The Court was composed of the follow-bays been sunk. Wits, afways obeyed and a blast on the whistle. At that neglected throughout the period under ing:--Comunander C. W. Brekwith, R.N. the legal Port Regulations when coming sis was making direct for the examina review, Standard Tin. after declining in
tion launch; going at a very moderate (President); Acting-Comunnder F. (lil-
She passed the launch about 2014 for cash has recovered to £10 cash son, H.M.S. Tarae;, Mr. W. Mesney
spred.
plantation Halter-remaining at 2/41 na (Master of the. Puensung): Mc. C. P.
feet away, at which time, the Taisha's 5/36/- for months, delivery. { last quoted. Bar Silver is quoted tá-lay Seddon (Master of the Japan); and Mr.
engines were not going.
at 294d. Sterling T. T. at 1/91, Shanghai E. Forsyth (wirehun');
T. T. at 784, and Singapore T. T. at 702. The Bank's buying rate for 3ds.
BANKS, Hongkong and Shanghais. bills on Shanghai is unchanged at 70%.
Answering Mr. Pollock, witness said he That the On Fere by his starboard side, "Therefore in the ordinary way he would have to get out of the road in accordance Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr.
with Article 10 relating to cressing J. S. Hanston) appeared for the com- ships," but he considered that the Port plainants, and Mr. H. E-Pullock, K. G-Hegulations-absolved him from observing (instructed by Mr. C. D. Wilkinson), for Articles 19, 92, and 23.
The "MN" the master of the On Lee.
By the President--The Taishan "hel practically no way
Witness went on to say that at the time he had his hack to the Ou Lee, as he was expeting that she wont be dis-sigut
Mr. Poltry briefly related the fact signal being hoisted brought him under He subsequently went astern and he after sales at $595 ex dividend, advanced | which were attested to by Captain Birgy the command of the examination offer, I saw the On Lee coming ahead and right to 8830, at which rate the market close:
and he did not in the circumstances obeyueross the rule of the rond.
the bows of the examination
Paunch.
:
And you not gone asteri" would he fire have hit your faunch !--- From the
with sales, and summ sellers.
MARINE INSURANCES.--Unions have con- tianed to advance and can now b placed at 8970. Cantons are still wanted at $380, and North Chinns al Tis. 105. either stock. Yangtzes at $240 nominal with ex. 7 are unchanged.
in the witnes-box later. Counsel said that on Sunday, 8th August, at 3 gim..
Mr. Pollock-You say that the merd the Teishon left, Macno fur Hongkong hoisting of that signul "M.N." by the The On Ler left ghout 20 minutes earlier. 1xamination launch abrogates, and repeals position of the Trishan and my launch but no business has been reported in The Taiken took the inner course, and the regulations for preventing colli the On Lee the ostiler 'passage. On nearsions-Yes, otherwise I should be fired ing Hongkong Harbour Cayrain Birss I have been fired on four times sighted the examination launch, and already. eventually ran alongside.
At the timu
Gif,
Witurss denied that the Trishan struck the Ou Teg was some little distance away.the On Lee. The reverse was the case.. ald Captain Birse was surprised to see
Mr. Pollack Did not your ship twist the On her still coming ahead quite round somewhat on the On Leg 1-Ny rupidly. He not amatairally thought|
I put it to you that the effect of the that the Og Ler would obey the Harbour
collision was that the Ou Lee's stem was twisted round-That is wrong.
Regulations and would stop. The Ou Le Apparently reversed engines when shout
I think she mure hava, hit me if I had not gone sskeyn,
is
FARE INSURANCES.-Chinas have improv Lieut. Davey added that at this time theed in sympathy with Unions, and $16! በዩና offered, "but again with: Hongkongs have alec tempting holders. On Lên mus travelling at from three to | four knots. Then the collision occurred, advanced and can now be placed at 8405.
Smiring-Douglases, after relapsing to and when the On Lee backed away he
tion of $60 after sales at this and inter- passed the Twishna and then sow the On8651, have recovered to a buying quota
Lado- Lee steaming towards the harbour. He mediate rates, with sales for September again hoisted the M.N." because heat 871 and for October at 872.
hind Preferred and Deferred, and at cae adongeid he asked this Captain why 857 for the Preferred, have declined tu wanted the On fee to stop. When witness Chinas, after sales at 8152 for the com
Steamboats have he had not answered the "M.N." signal selling rate of 8149 for the combined
$55, all cum dividend. advanced to $22, but this there ar sellers, China and Manilas are still in request at 40 ets., and Star Ferris on offer at $301 after sales.
What damage do you say was caused to a length away from the Taishan. but the On Lv1 believe the stem was The Captain said he had not on it, an with probable buyers of the Preferred at
knocked round about two ineles. That was what I observed at the dime..
came on at considerably speed and struck the Taishan with some force on the star- -board side by the forward gangway. The
You have not examined the One Lee. point which he wanted to make was that since? No, i have nothing to do with the shortly before the collision took place the
ship. examination launch, which was heading in the same direction as the Taishan, had to back asteru, apparently for the purposes of carrying out the examination, but if she had, not so gune astern shie would have been ran into by the Da be. which would my and octims The only explanation instead of onė. that the complainants had received to dute from the Captain of the On Lee with referees to his extraordinary coB- duct was the explanation which he gave to Lien. Davey, the officer in charge of
A little bit of feeling. Captain, is there ---Ob, D. I do not go on any ship but my own. I have my home here.
I pay it you that your strip was going faster than the On Lret-Nousense; it is fi. Had the collision happened to any other ship at the Taishan she would
have bren sunk.
Witness furler said that he was busy Looking after the examination officer, and he did not notice. the Ou Ler util she was a ship's length away and his engines were working full speed astern.
Mr. Pollock-If your engines had gone full speed astern a little earlier, say, when you ordered slow ahead, the collision would not have occurred?-But why If the Ou Lee bad should I do thai stopped the collision would not have I did not know the position oeuvred. of the Qu Lee.
was very witness replied that that funny as the Captain of the Taishan had seen and awwered the signal.
WIS
shares.
REFINERIES,China Sugars, after werd ing to $125 cash, and 131 December, have recovered to a buying quote ion of 3128 a large business having been done at the and intermediat rate, the marketelo imp strong. Lazuns are weak with semes now on offer at $41.
By Mr. Pulter-His-atention
Ons--Shells have been bought from concentrated on the Tarban and he did | London at 92, the local market closing hayers at 90/-. Langkats continue quis not see the On Ler hoist a pennant. He with sales and sellers at this rate, ani raised his hand to indicate the direction locally, but with reported buyers an which the Taichun, should gö, but he did Shanghai at Tls. 39. Ural Caspians are this rate would probably be paid for fuc peau this as a "gun" sign to enquired for at 39/- and an advies en
either of the vessels. He saw the actual spot collision, and at the time the the her struck the Taishan her engines were reversed and the Ou Ler incked out.
to this the Taichun hat Previous signalled by three blasts that she was
MINING.-Rabs, notwithstanding th going astern and she must have been practically stationary just before the improved crushing of 1,989 ouers for le collision. He saw that the stem of the Orpast four weeks as compared with 1.170 for the previous period, are still on offer. Lee was twisted after the collision.
$34. at which a small business could b Would not that indicate that the Taat $4, buyers refusing to pay more than Kailans - without business s shan was going ahead the time of the done. Troughs keep in seady demand s
report. collision-Not necessarily; it would no: 31/ with a small business pussing, aari indicate that to me,
Docks. steadily declined from $75 to $73), al Hongkong and Whampoa Docks hav which a stall d man is in évidence, ani Kowloon Wharvis fremt 8773 40 876, a which rate a few shares might now h placed. New Engineers are quoted at Tis. 9 and Shanghai Docks at Tls. 61. both with reported buyers in the North. quotation of Ts, 90 and no business te report. Hongkew Wharves close with a nominal LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.-Con
There are buyers kong Lands at $110. tral Estates are quiet at $100, and Hong- of Humphreys Estates at 86-10, Kowloon Lands at $40 and West Points at $71,
$116. but no business whatever has transpired. Hongkong Hotels continue in request at
the examination launch, when he came alongside, namely, that he (Captain) Willex) did not see the signal to stop. He (counsel) thought that was almost incorozivalile. In this conuection he wight say that the bridge of the Lee contained quite a large number of passen gors, and whether that was why Captain Willox did not see the signal he (Mr.
Your had a large number of passengers | nurse ships. Anyway, i Potter) could nat say. would submit that if the Captain did not aboard?--Yee, about 400 all told.
the signal he ought to have, bocuse he knew he had to pass the umbl examination, which he had had to do for-1 cammot say. I was on the bridge. In twelve monthe past.
Mr. Potter further said that in atter from Messn. Wilkinson & Grist they had been accused of being guilty of some faults, because, as defendants said, the Taishan did not obey Article 18 of the Regulations to prevent collisions at sea. He would submit that this Article had nothing whatever to do with the case, which came entirely under the local port regulations, which governed ships, and had so governed them for the past year, when they came into the Harbour..
"Brothers," until the vessel got to the
Aud did not nearly all of them proceed to the starboard side before the collision?
any case it would not have caused the Taishan to list more than two inches. She has a 55 fext beam, and she is 300 feet long.
Withess added that after the collision the On Lee backed away, while the Taishan remained practically stationary. It was the common practice to go into the examination ground with other ships, but it was not the practice to hoist the
M.N." signal to each ship. Thomas Jackson Crisp, Chief Officer of The Taishan, corroborated the evidence of
the master. tiffin adjournment Mr.
After the
a length and
2
After other questions had been put the President remarked that the Examination Officer was not out at the anchorage to-day The signals were hoisted and the ships were supposed to answer them or take the consequences,"
Private Warden, R.M.L.I., who was also on the examination launch, gave corroborative evidence.
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wharf, he was on the bridge in charge. Taishen and travelling at about five duty of the Taishes under Article 19 to Interim dividend of $2 per share, parable:
kriots When he saw this witness went When approaching Cheung Hue le saw the Ox Lee on his starboard side coming down to
the engine-room because he He then saw the up from Kau-i-chan.
feared a collision and later he felt the examination launch lying about half a
bunipi mile off Stonecutter's. At 6.22. p.m. ordered "alow ahead," and immediately John Wilson, the second engineer of the was in the engine room after he saw the signal "MIN." hoisted by the examination launch, which he at the time of the collision, deposed to the orders which were given him, pro- The order
Mr. Pollock, addressing the Confor the defence, said one most important question for the Court to determine was whether the defence were currect in the view they took that theer local regula- tions had nothing at all to do with
COTTON MILLS-No business is reported in this section, the closing quotations abrogation, repealing or suspending the
being: Ewos Tle. 175, International T1 ordinary International Regulations for the prevention of collisions at sea. That 91, Kung Yiks Tls. 15, Shanghai Cottons had a most direet begring on the question Tis. 102, and Soy Chees. Tls. 45, all with of whether or not the course which was buyers in Shanghai. Hongkongs have taken by the Taishan and the On Lee was improved to 871 buyers after further sales was correct. The captain of the Tisken at $71 and 87.60. had quite frankly admitted that he was The Master of the Twishan, Cap. Birss.
Articles, only to the port regulations. He sales at this rate and at $9. China. Lights deposed that he had, been in command
are wanted at 84, Hongkong Trams at S. Johnson, Chief Engineer ofwould practically treat the On Lee 18 of the Taishan since she had been built. 1.
driss at $3, and Watson at $63. There and had been in the employ of the Com-the Taishan, was called. Speaking as if she were not there at all. If they were Ler had the right of way, she was per: pany for 12 yours. On the return voyage the collision witness said he saw the On correct in their contention that the $5.20, Peak Trams at Sej. Steam Laun. from Macao an the 8th inst. from the Lee several times and once she was only í fectly right in going down the starbird are sellers of Ropes at 820, Electrics a:
MEMOS, Hongkong Ice It was the half away from the side of the launch, and the her ship 84% and Powells, at St.
had not the right of way.
on the 24th instant, transfer books closed keep out of the way, under Article 22 to
NEXT SETTLING DAY.-August 27th. avoid taking any course which would take until that date. her across the bows of the On Tre, and under Article 23 to stop and reverse if necessary.
There could be no doubt that
IT CUTS THE CORDS
# # It strikes off' It was suggested that Article 30 applied
that bind helpless hands. that would have been the ordinary rule, here, viz., that "Nothing in these rules
The Kokunin says the Boating dock at and of Rheumatism. It restores RING The only Tsingtao, which was sunk by the Germans strength and freedom from pain, brings shall interfere with the operation of special rules made by local authorities relative to navigation, etc."
navigation, saving clause had regard to
refloated on the 8th instant. The dock, life's richest blessings. It was down and approaching the launch. Elo to "stop" came almost simultaneously and not to the examination of ships in at the time of the fall of the fortress, way back the ability to walk, work and enjoy ;
wartime or anything clee.
tor of suffering humanity-the marvellous spccially provided under the Merchant which is of 15,000 tons, will, after repairs
remedy on which absolute dependence may be placed. Countless cases have been Lieut. Davey, R.N.R., No 2, Boarding Shipping Ordinance that the general are effected, be employed by the Japanese been for many years, the one great liberas the eldest and still immeasurably the beat
throughout the Navy.
cured. Cripples have been made to walk; į
of victims and the On Lee was then approximately Officer and acting No. 1 at the present rules should apply
Rheumatism's cured.
Sufferers 1,000 yards from her. The M.N." flags time, said that on the day of the collision waters of the Colony. It was suggested:
A Constantinople telegram_states that bedridden regulations should do away with the were hoisted for some three or four
incurable have obtained. wiputes. Then the examination officer limits.
He was expecting the Taishan general rules! It was never intended to
alter the general laws by a side-wind. It the French armoured cruiser Jenne d'Are tortures have arisen was just as important that the rules arrived off Alexandretta Harbour recently, given up by doctors and discharged from
and her commander sent a letter to the hospitals as 1 He first stw should be observed in wartime as in Vice Governor of the town, demanding that ready relief and have been cured by
prace, It was most important for the
Sold at is, 4d, per bottle. the Ou Lee six miles away and tea prevention of collisions that the shio which, the flagover the German Consulate should Little's Oriental Baim minutes later the Taishan appeared, four had not the right of way should keep be lowered. miles away, she coming through the out of the way,
Authorities were quoted by. Mr. Pollet, Following the usual Tant the hearing was Capsiumon Pass. custom be hoisted the "M.N." signal, adjourned.
he
Taiskan, who
obeyed in his usual manner by showing ducing his log in support.
stopped his engines when about 600 yards with the collision. from the examination launch, at 6.25 p.m..
waved him to go up and be examined. At and the On Lee-about 6 p.m. and was 6.25 he went full speed astern, as the or the lookout for them.: launch was close up on the starboard bow. about 150 feet away. At 6.27 he stopped and blew the usual three blasts on his whistle when going astern. He was head. ing on his original course when he came
ultimately
THE FLOATING DOCK AT TSINGTAO.
The anthorities refused whereupon the cruiser fired fifteen she's This had the desired into the consulate. effect, the fog was run down, and the Jeanne d'Arc then steamed away.
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