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Masters and
their vessels, their ship Officers being all first-class praman carefully selected, having ragard to - their characters and competence who
liberally paid for their services and that as proof of thus statuuent
are
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Petitioners take have to mention
and bauton lave
that although their steamers plying between Hongkong carried between these places from the -formation of the Company to tha present time over five millions of -human beings, but our casually has recurred amongst item during that period; that one being the case
Chinaman who
wan
suffocated
e
of a
scalded to death by the explosion of a
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super luater on the "Kunction," a fact your Petitioners believe to be impreceding in the records of passenger traffle.
That the waters of the Muited
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Kingdom defined by the said instructions of the Board of Trade as "smooth waters" are liable to more frequent storms and other disturbance deeper than the waters between Hongkong and leauton; that the vessels to which such instructions ~
and are
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apply travel by night as well by day and that the waters they traverse as well as being liable to disturbances
herein before nicationed,
as
are corre or
lees crowded with steamers and other
vessels (which is not the
Case
these