To-day's Advertisements.
NOTICE.
45,000 to lend upon First Class Mortgage Security, in large or small Amounts.
Apply
J. J. FRANCIS,
4, Des Voeux Road. (şile
Hongkong, th May, 1901.
THE
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have received instructions
to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
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SATURDAY, the 18th May, igot, at 2.30 PM.
at their Sales Rooms, Ice House Street. A QUANTITY OF SILK TAPESTRIES & EMBROIDERIES. These Silks are all male on the Imperial Looms at SoоCHOW and HANGCHOW for Im- perial use and were stored in the Imperial Household Godowns.
TERMS: As Usual.
HUGHES & HOUGH..
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, th May, 1901.
[5256 THE WANCHAI WAREHOUSE AND
STORAGE CO, LIMITED,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS..
TOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA- ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
NOTI
of the above Company will be held at the OFFICE of the Undersigned, No. 5, Queen's Roi Central, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 23rd May, at 3 o'clock, in the Aftemoon, for the purpose of considering, and (if thought fit) approving of an offer for the sale of the whole
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1901.
To-day's Advertisement.
THE TRADEMARKS ORDINANCE
1898.
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF
TRADE MARK.
NTC carrying on business at Victoria, IOTICE is hereby given that CARLOWITZ
in the Colony of Hongkong and elsewhere as merchants have, on the 8th day of May, 1901, applied for the Registration in Hongkong, in the Register of Trade Marks of the following TRADE MARK.
In combination with the undermentioned device and on one end of the reel on which the Cotton thread is wound appears the distinctive device of a Peacock with its tail outspread, enclosed in a fancy circle, Round the circle are printed stamped painted impressed branded stencilled written drawn cut or embossed the words "Extra Glace Cotton Thread" In com- bination with the above device and on the other end of the reel on which the Cotton threall is wound appears the same device with the word "Warranted" on the top, in the name of CARLOWITZ & Co. who claim to be the proprietors thereof.
The Trade Mark has been used by the applicants since the month of February, 1908, in respect of the following goods;
Cotton Thread on reole in class 23. A Facsimile of the Trade Mark can be seen at the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hong. kong and also at the Office of the Undersigned
Dated the 11th day of May, 1901.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Applicants,
12, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong,
523cj
Intimation.
of the Allies at Peking, says that the British were the only real friends the Americans had, and that they were always together.
BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA, Mrs. Botha, wife of the Commandant, has sailed for England. She obtained Lord urging peace. Kitchener's consent to interview Mr. Kruger,
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says:-
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We are glad to be able to state that the third plaque patient, Mc. fawkes, from the Hong Kang Dispensary is doing fairly well.
THE Simits Times says Hurricane House is heing put in order for the reception of the King and Queen of Siam who are expected to arrive on the oth inst., en route to Java. They are expected to remain here for a week or so before resuming their voyage, M
We shall be obliged if any subscriber on receiving his paper late or irregularly will write on the Wrapper of the paper the Time of delivery, etc., and forward the Wrapper to the On the 5th at 11.55 a.m. the barometer has Man, ger, Hongkong. Telegraph Co., Lâ, so fallen on the China coast and in the Philippines. Queen's Road Central. The wrapper will Pressure appears to be now low over N. China,chable us to check the delivery coolies and highest over Japan, Gradients slight for S.E. and E. winds on the coast, and in the M.We have received the following express from part of the China Sea. Forecast-Moderate the managers of the Joint Telegraph Com- or light E, winds; cloudy, misty.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A GOOD shorthand reporter is; wanted, vide advertisement appearing elsewhere.
panties-
COMMUNICATION WITH PAKIL TIENTSIN AND PEKING.
Telegraphic communication between Chefoo and Taku and restored yesterday evening, THE Smolensk is the latest addition to the Russian Volunteer Fleet. She has been built
HARMSTON'S Circus was due to arrive at Singa- by Messrs. Hawthorne Leslie, the well-known
pore from Manila, on the 13th of this month. Mr. E. W. BIRCH, C.M.G., the new Governor of British North Borneo, arrived at Singapore
en route for Sandakan on the 9th instant. He is accompanied by Mrs. Birch.
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On Tuesday night a rickshaman carelessly ran his machine, his fare (an engineer from the Empress of Japan), and himself over the praya wall near Blake Pier. They were both rescued by a European policeman,
NOTICE.
of the Company's property on Marine Lot No. A. S. WATSON & CO., be obtained on application. Price fifty cents
29, 29A, 30 and 30A, Inland Lot No. 43543, 613-615 on Terms and Conditions, which can be ascertained upon enquiry from the Under- signed.
MEYER & CO.,
General Managers.
Hongkong, 15th May, 1901.
DROZ & Co.,
[5240
WATCH MANUFACTURERS, STEAM FACtory EstablISHED 1864. .ST. IMIER, SWITZERLAND.
SPECIALITIES:
LEVER WATCH & CHRONOGRAPHS. TRADE MARKS:
MAXIM, BERNA, &c. -
REPAIRS of WATCHES and CLOCKS
by competent European experts at Moderate Rate.
No. 10, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.. Hongkong, 15th May, rot
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INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY, LIMITED,
FOR MANILA,
THE Company's Steamship
THE
* LOONGSANG,"
LIMITED.
ESTABLISHED A.D), 1841.
THE LEADING MANUFACTURERS
OK
ÆRATED WATERS
IN THE FAR EAST.
OUR NEW FACTORY, facing the sea at the PRAYA RECLAMATION, is constructed with every attention to the best principles that sanitary science can suggest,
A perfect System of Filtration is
Our Special Edition is now on sale and may
Intending purchasers are advised to order early. See advertisement appearing eleswhere.
WHEN the Duke of Cornwall and York was in Malta he honoured Baron Testaferrata Abela not only by appointing him C.M.G. but by ac cepting from him a valuable collection of stamps which the Baron had collected for same forty years.
IT may be noticed that we are publishing a gazette of interest to the shipping community generally, giving the names of officers on leave, promotions, transfers, etc. We imagine it will be found useful by many shipping people here, who can see at a glance where their friends are at the time. We shall be much obliged for any information from our readers tending to
keep the column up to date.
$19
THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donation to the funds of the Hospitals :--
H. H. Cooper The Hon. Treasurer in reply to a query regard- ing the item "Telephone" in the balance sheet of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospital for rooo, begs to state that the sum of $30 per annum is expended on the upkeep of a tele- phone in Nethersole Hospital, the telephone in The Machinery used is of the Latest the Alice Memorial being maintained free of cost by the China and Japan Telephone Co. Type.
Ld.
Captain Weigall, will be despatched as aboveployed guaranteeing Absolute pur-
on FRIDAY, the 17th instant, at Noon.
This Steamer has Superior Accommodation ity.
for First class Passengers, is fitted throughout
with Electric Light and carries a Doctor.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Managers.
Hongkong, 15th May, 1901.
[509c.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY. LIMITED.
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
སཱཾ *
CALCUTTA.
THE Company's Steamship
"SUISANG," Captain Tadd, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 21st instant, ut 3 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JÄRDINE, MATHESON & Co, General Managers. Hongkong, 15th May, 1901. AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY.
STEAM TO YOKOHAMA AND KOBE.
HE Company's Steamship.
THE
"INDIA,"
Captain Ghezzo, will leave for the above places, on WEDNESDAY, the 22nd instant, at 5 P..
For Freight, apply to
SANDER, WIELER & Co.,....
Agents,
· Hongkong, 15th May, 1901.
THE OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,
LIMITED.
1528c
FOR SWATOW, AMOY & TAIWANFOO.
"HE Company's Steamship
THE
“AKASHI MARU,”
Captain K. Sudzuki, will be despatched as above
on WEDNESDAY, the 29th instant, at Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
THE MITSUÍ BÚSSAN KAISHA, Agents.
Hongkong, 15th May, 1901.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO'S "NEW YORK" LINE
[48xc
FOR NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL. -
THE Steamship
"ARAKA,"
Captain will be despatched for the above Port, on or about the 1st August.
For Freight, apply to
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Agents Hongkong, 15th May, 1001
1527 "INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION. COMPANY, LIMITED. FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE. THR Company's Steamship
"SUISANG"
having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge
remaining
en board after 4 PM the 17th instant, will be landed at Consignees risk and expense into Godowns at East Point,
A STAFF OF ENGLISH EXPERTS attends to every detail of the Manu- facture.
The Waters produced are of the highest class and excellence; as testi fied to by the best English makers.-
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
Hongkong.
DEATHS.
At Government Civil Hospital, yesterday, (Tuesday), the 14th inst., Bro. C. ROBERTSON, Warder, Victoria Gaol
At "Balmoral," No, 23, Steven's Road, Singa- pore, Mrs. J. H. W. HELMSTROM, the beloved mother of Mrs. E. Becker, aged 77. ·
The Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1901,
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA,
LONDON, May 13th.
It is estimated at Pretoria that 16,500 Boers are still in the field.
The enemy is again messing in the Easter and Western Transvaal,
General Campbell whilst returning to Middleburg was harassed by 1,000 Boers with four guns. HONOURS FOR JAMES WATTS, THE TIENTSIN HERO. James Watts has been awarded a Com- panionship of the most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, for conspicuous. bravery in conveying despatches between. Tientsin and Taku on the 19th June last.
LATER
THE BRITISH AND AMERICANS
AT PEKING.
No Fire Insurance will be effected Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
MALJARDINE, MATHESON & Co,
General Managers. OP MAA A report by General Chaffee's aide-de camp Hongkong, 15th May 1901 1 15226 published at Washington, upon the operations
A CORRESPONDENT of the Morning Leader, writing under date Paris, April 14th says: Much sympathy generally has been expressed with the successful exhibitors at last year's Ex position, who, though awarded medals and diplomas several months ago, as yet have received nothing. This sympathy took á
practical turn in the minds of three enterprising individuals, who, coming to the aid of the administration, have been delivering gold and silver medals and diplomas. Finding the busi ness a paying one, they established branch- offices in Brussels and elsewhere. When the police swooped down to-day on one of their offices no fewer than 200,000 false medals were captured. It is not known yet to what extent this swindling was carried on, but certainly it 'must have been considerable, judging from the luxuriousness of the apartment employed as headquarters.
LACONIC tragedies, in what might be called literary tabloid form, have been a little in vogue at home. Here is a cycle of those com- pressed epics:-
We add,
Little boy,
Cherry-stones; Croton-oil,
Awful means,
Little girl,
Box of paints; Srcks her brush,
Joins the saints. Bigger boy
Sea-guil's nest; Crumbling rocks,
Eternal rest. Bigger girl,
Healthy bloom; Waist too tight, Early tomb.
Hongkong clerk,
Fantan plays Robs the till
Ninety days. Subaltern,
Does a mash, Mess bill short
Comes a crash, Little gold
Company Boom in Shares Bankruptcy, Big taipan
Plenty tin Pretty wife.
Lets him im
Can't pay up
Awful funk Barrow cash
Do a bunk.
A little drink
** Weather hot
Sundry nipa
Gone to pot
Tyne shipbuilders Steam is developed by
·Bulleville boilers, and her speed is to be 201 knots an hour. She is fitted to carry fifteen quick-firing guns when necessary.
A NEW rice mill, belonging to the Borneo Company, was opened at Bangkok on the 29th April. The mill is said to be fitted up to date. and will be lighted with electricity. The capacity of the mill is 5,000 piculs of cargo rice and 24,000 piculs of first-class white rice every twenty-four hours. The machinery cost about £35,000.
ANDREW Carnegie, the millionaire, possesses a mansion at New York surrounded by trouble. To baulk them he has some neighbours. undertaken to fence in his, dwelling with a so-called "spite wall" to cost half a million of dollars in gold. Ornamental marbles will be the fabric, rising to a height of 45 or 50 feet. Bas reliefs and sculptures will be carved on its facades by artists whose genius is of universal fame.
THE Berlin correspondent of the Morning Leader writes under date April, 14th The bars of gold which were missing from the strong room of the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse were found yesterday on the vessel itself. A steward named Mager was engaged carly in the morning cleaning up a second. class cabin, and on the top of one of the cross beams he knocked against a hard substance, which proved to be one of the gold bars, Close to it were the other two bars, Mager is con sidered an absolutely trustworthy man, and how the gold came to be placed there is a mystery which the Bremen police have resolved to fathom.
AT THE MAGISTRACY.
THE ALLEGED BRIBERY CASE. The case in which Percy Thomas Crisp, an Inspector of Buildings in the Public Works Department is charged with accepting a bribe of $40 from Cheung Sui Kee, came up for hearing this afternoon and was again adjourned
to the 23rd inst.
.COAL,
Hung Fau and Chan Leung, heatmen, were found by P. Const. Wright in possession of four picals of coal, for which they could not fines of St or 14 days, account satisfactorily. Mr. Kemp imposed
CUTTING TURF.
five coolies $5 each or 14 days. They chose Unlawfully cutting turf on Crown Land cost the latter alternative.
*
NO LICENCE.
Lari Shing, master of the junk Kum On Shin, pleaded guilty to having two muskets on beard his craft without a licence. The arms were confiscated,
muskets confiscated under similar conditions.
Hung Fu, another junk master, had four
Plying a ricksha for hire without a driver's licence cost Chung Tung S2 or 10 days.
of the owner. Yau Tsai Pak, a boxmaker, of 9 Chung San St., appested on the same charge.
Li Yin stated that the second defendant ask ed him if he would like to go to Manila and ar ranged to send him there for $85. He was taken aboard the Diamante and introduced to the carpenter, who was to guarantee his being landed at Manila. He had paid $50 and the balance was to be paid by a foki on receipt of a letter saying he had landed. Wimess was taken into the carpenter's cabin and told to hide, which he did, food being supplied to him by a fireman. On arrival at Manila witness was found by the and Officer and was brought back to Hongkong. On the way the carpenter told him not to say that he had taken him over. Witness was charged with being a stowaway and fined $15.
Further evidence having been given the two men were fined $350 each or four months' hard
About
LICENSING SESSIONS.
A meeting of Justices was held to-day at the Magistracy at 2.30 to consider an applica tion from Rustomjee Cowasjee Ramjee for the transfer of his Publican's Licence to sell and retail intoxicating liquors on the premises situate at No. 142 Queen's Road Central under the sign of the Stag Hotel" to Luis Manoel Lobo
There were no police objections and the application was granted unanimously.
..
A CASE OF LOAD-LINE,
Yesterday in the Supreme Court,' Summary Jurisdiction, before His Honour A. G. Wise, (Paisne Judge), an action was brought by Capt. F.S. Primrose against Un Lai Chuen, to recover the sum of 1633.35, alleged to be the amount of his salary and disbursements from 30th April, 1901, to the end of May, 1901, as damages for wrongful dismissal.
are corectly described in the Harbour Regula tions but not in the Ordinance. Between the Central and Northern Fairways is a merchant ship anchorge, but vessels are not allowed to anchor in it to the cast of the C. PR. buoys on account of the danger of the vessels swinging and fouling one another. The anchorage is. habitually used as such, there being usually fifteen or more there.. The witness had never known any portion of the anchorage to be used as a fairway. He had never met a regular coasting captain, with the exception' of Capt. Pierce of the Kangchow, who didn't know the anchonge. By the gist of Capt. Pierce's con- versation after the accident Witness understood that he thought the portion of anchorage re.. ferred to was part of the fairway. Witness description of the fairways corresponded with. that given in the Admiralty Sailing Directions, and the anchorage there referred to was the one in question. There was no reason why a vessel should not go through the anchorage if there was room; they often did so. A ship ought not to fly a pennant in the anchorage; she would be wrong if she did. · A. ship com- ing fromycemun and flying the D. pennant when off Kowloon Point would be going up the Northern Fairway.
By Mr. Francis. So far as Witness knew there was no Ordinance defining fairways before 1886, The, N. Y. K. buoys were laid in 1898. The B. and T. buoys were placed in their pre- sent position in 1895. The Austrian Lloyd buoy was in its position when Witness arrived here, as were the two P. & O. buoys, and the northern M. M. buoy, Her could not say the name of the Japanese officer, or his ship, who pointed out the error in the bearing. It was pointed out about a month before.the collision, Witness gave a clerk orders to alter the bear. ing in the Harbour Regulations. but did not look to see if it was done. Witness marked the position of all buoys. The colours of the fairway buoys were altered at the order of the then Assistant Harbourmaster in 1894. The positions of the lines of buoys was verified by witness by angles and a station pointer. Mr. Hastings (Messrs. Deacon and Hastings This buoys in the line of the Southern boundary appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. 1. Hays of the fairway were put down in their old posi- (Messrs. Johnson Stokes and Master) repretions. He had never seen that the southern boundary line was correct because vessels often interrupted the fine of sight. Witness took the anchorage he found it and as his superior officers told him. He never had need to use the erroneous bearing and so did not discover the error. A line just open of Keller's Island would be on a bearing of S 73°. About 3 months ago a captain was warned for not Rying a pennant in the Northern Fairway. This was the only case he remembered. He remembered several cases of captains being prosecuted for anchoring in the central fairway.
sented the defendant.
MrHastings said his client was a master mariner. The defendant was owner of the s... Telemachus, a former Blue Funnel boat. The plaintiff was engaged by defendant as master of the Telemachus. He had made several voyages from Hongkong to Saigon and the Phillipines. He returned to Hongkong from his last voyage on the sgth ulto, and the next morning Capt. Williamson' went aboard, and gave Capt. Primrose a letter in which he was asked to hand over the command of the steamer to the bearer.
Capt. Primrose dent to the defendant and asked the reason of his dismissal, "Capt. Primrose was then cross-examined by Mr. Hays, and it came out in evidence that the plaintiff had found out that the load-ling of the steamer was a false one, and he had ittered 84 tons dead weight to the ship. to its proper position. It made a difference of Mr. Hays asked if it was not a serious offence to shift the load-line.
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Plaintiff said it was a much more serious offence to have it in the wrong place.
Asked if he (plaintiff) knew be was taking great responsibility in altering the load-line, be replied, No; it was done by the Board of Trade
In the defence the Chinese charterer said be objected to the captain altering the load-line, because he lost cargo by it.
Mr. Hastings: Then you prefer to run the steamer with a false load-line, and endanger the vessel to get a bigger cargo, and then dis miss the captain for finding the correct load-line? Witness admitted this, and said he dismissed the captain because he did not tell him about altering the load-line.
Judgement for the plaintiff for $995.25 and costs, His Honour saying that plaintiff was perfectly justified in altering the lead-linet, otherwise he might have got into very serious trouble at the Harbour Office or in the Police
Court.
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
SUPREME COURT IN, ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION. May 15th.
THE "GLENGYLE":"HANGCHOW"
COLLISION CASE.
merning. His Lordship apologised to the Bar
This case came on for hearing again this
By His Lordship. If witress saw a vessel Aying a bine pennant in the anchorage he would order it to be hauled down.
Leonard Fuller James, Chief Officer of the Glengle, holding a master's certificate, said he weighed the anchor on the forecastle head
at
Stonecutter's on 21st March and remained there up to the time of the collision. nained his first trip to Hongkong. The Glengyle passed the Empress boat between 50 and 100 feet distant. Witness first saw the Hangchow just before the Glengyle was abreast of the Empress, when the Glengyle's bow was abaft the Empress quarter. The Wangchow was 11 or z points on the port Box and about a mile off The Empress was swinging towards the West. Before the Empress was reached the engines were going slow. They were stopped somewhere about abreast of the Empress, about nine or ten minutes before the collision. When first seen the Hangchow was going," about seven knots with the tide. After the engines were stopped they were not turned until reversed about three minutes before. the collision. The Glengyle sounded a blast on the whistle, when the Hangchow was first observed by witness. The "Hangchow gave a short blast shortly after. The Glengyie's whistle next blew a long blast about 2 or 3 minutes after the Hangchow had whistled This was about three minutes before the collision. At this time the Hangche could have cleared the Glengyle on either side.. The way was off the latter vessel. The engines were reversed just after the recond long blast.. Up to within a minute and a half of the colli. sion the Hangchow 'could have cleared the Giengyle on either side; her speed did not seem to have been reduced. After that she might have cleared by porting her helm. The Hangchoru let go her starboard anchor, followed. by the sport in 15 or 20 seconds and then. appeared to slacken speed. Before this she did not appear to have slackened but came on at a great speed. When the Glengyle's engines
were reversed she was about half-a-length from
for the inconvenience caused by his recent the M. M. buoy and was practically stopped. indisposition. Mr. Francis expressed the plea-Had the Glengyle's engines been reversed sure of himself and his colleagues at seeing sooner her head would have canted to starboard His Lordship once more on the Bench and
and she would have fouled"}he Empress.. At hoped that he had not come to resume his the moment of collision the Glengyle had a little stern way. There was nothing whatever duties before he was fully recovered.
to stop the Hangchow passing to port.
Mr. Francis, K.C, instructed by Messis. Johnson, Stokes and Master, appeared for the Hangchow, and Mr. E. H. Sharpe, instructed by Messrs. Deacon and. Hastings, for the Glengyle.
Edward Jones, acting assistant Harbour master was the first witness called. He had held his present position over four years and was before that in the Harbour Office as Board. ing Officer since 1888: As Boarding Officer For the same offence Liu Ping was fined $3 it was his duty to direct ships to their proper or 10 days,
NUISANCES.
For dumping nightsoit in the side channel Chan To, à lonely widow, was fined $2 or seven days. She paid up.
anchorages. He knew the fairways and the Harbour Regulations and held a master's certi- ficate. Before joining the Harbour Office he was chief officer of the Abyssinia, one of the chartered Canadian Pacific steamers.
The position of the Northern Fairway is approximately the same as when Witness joined the Harbour Office. In placing the For a similar offence Chan Yau, a coolie, buoys there might have been changes of a few, received a like senterice.
AN EXPENSIVE TOW. Chan Cheung made his boat fast to the 5.5. Tore while under way. The tow cost him $10 or 14 days.
AN AESTHETIC BRUNKARD. Ho Sang, while under the influence of drink, walked off with two pots of flowers belonging to Ip Ng. He said he was not very drunk Evidently, he was drunk enough to steal, and was fined $2 or eight days,
Mr. Barber, the third officer of the Glengyle, was unter cross-examination by Mr. Francis this afternoon. He was unable to say if the.. Chinese pilot advised the Captain as to what' courses to steer. He did not hear him say any thing on the subject. Chinese pilots were differ ent to European and, so far as Witness knew, were very little use.
By His Lordship. Witness was on the bridge by the telegraph. The Captain and pilot were moving about. They were, some- times together. He did not see them speak to one another.
The pilot did not give any. orders to witness or the helmsman,
It turns out that the pilot is reported dead and cannot be found to give evidence. Mr. Sharpe said he would endeavour to find him if the report turned out to be false. Mr. Francis said he did not intend to comment on the pilot's absence..
feet but no intentional one. The northern boundary of the Northern Fairway is as given John Reid, M. B., C. M., doctor of the in the Ordinance. It is a line between Kowloon Glengyle, was on the lower bridge when the Point and Chunghue Point, bearing about vessel was coming up the harbour on arst March. S. 66 W. Witness.pointed it out on the chart. He would say that the engines were stopped The line of buoys at present extends about a ten minutes before the collision, He heard hundred feet to the north of the line. He the order given. Some minutes after be heard named the buoys forming the line.. The the order to lower away the rope into the boat. southern boundary is a parallel line of buoys After the latter order Witness went to the. about Troo feet distance. He also named this break of the poop. and stopped to speak line of buoys. The bearing of this line from to a passenger. The passenger pointed out Kellets island is about S. 66 E. The bearing soon after that the engines were going aatem. given in the Ordinance is wrong. Witness After this Witness noticed the Hangshow, com- brat became aware of this about three months ing towards them at great speed, let her anchor ago on his attention being called to it by the go. Witness saw a collision was inevitable and Japanese mate of one of the Mitsui Bussan made a rush to the bridge to see what was to be. THE FELONY THAT PAILED.
Kaisha steamers. He was positive that it was seen. He had just reached the top of the lad before the present case. He reported to the der when the crash came. From the time At two o'clock this morning Tejoo Mal, an
Harbour-master, about two days later, who told Witness saw that the engines had been re- Indian shopkeeper of 4 D'Aguilar Street came witness to have it altered in the Harbour versed to the conson was about 45 seconds to home and found Olegario Rodil, and Li Fuk Regulations. This was before the present case a minute. He could not say as to how long on his staircase." He shouted" " police” and a
Witness had no idea how the error arose. It before that the engines had been reversed. soldier came and arrested the men. They was the same in the edition of the Gatetie for, By Mr. Francis-Witness was leaning over 1886. To the best of his knowledge the error the rail talking to a passenger for a couple of did not appear before then. He did not know minutes before he noticed that she had gone if the error had been noticed previously. No astern. During that time she seemed to be report had been made to the Harbour Office stationary. When he saw the engines reversed So far as he knew the bearings were never used the seemed to be moving astern. Lis impression, to go through the fairways, the lines of buoys was that she had stern way, were always followed. Had the bearing been John Hastic Robertson, and Engineer of the used the error must have been discovered Glengyle.was in charge of the engines on 21st The bearing as erroneously given would take of March up to the time of the collision. The up the whole of the anchorage and nearly the engines responded promptly to the order to whole of the Central Fairway. These were the go astern They had patent hydraulic reversing reasons for his saying that the error was. gear which enabled them to reverse in 3 or 4 obvious With, no bearing given the rest of the secondsk description would be useless. The western Mr Francis had no questions,
wete this morning sentenced to 14 days! hard labour, for being found in a dwelling house for an unlawful purpose.
TREE CUTTING.
For cutting trees on Crown Land, Pang Sing Ting, a coolie of no fixed place of abode or occupation, was fined $to or three weeks. He went to gaol
AIDING A STOWAWAY BAL Wong Ping, carpenter of the S.S. Diamante, was charged with aiding and abetting one Li Yin to obtain a passage in the Digante end of the Central Fairway is marked by two The case was adjourned until to-morrow frem Hongkong to Manila without the conical buoys painted white and red They at fo