1876-06-26 — Page 4

No, 4054-JUNE 26, 1876.1:

unforeseen, which he did not anticipate, happened, he would be ready to go on next Monday.

It was then settled that the case would come on next Monday.

The witness was not cross-examined, Dr.. Wharry, Superintendent of the Civil Hospital, was examined as to the cause of death. He was of opinion that death, re- sulted from the shock occasioned by the scald: No other body was brought in on that day, the 6th-May.

Not cross-examined.

Macao Steamboat Company, limited, was oalled:-The Company owns steamer called the Kinshan, à British steamer. Tue 1st defendant is the chief engineer and the 2nd defendant is the 2nd engineer of the Kinshan. The Jat prisoner has been in the service of the Company since its formation. Some time last year he went on leave, and only resumed his duties in the Kinshan April last. The 2nd prisoner acted for him while be was away. The 2nd has also been in the service of the Company ofnco Ite formation-October 1886. During the time the 2nd prisoner was chief engineer, one. Charles Nembert was 2nd engineer. The Kinshan, ie American built with a walk- ing beam engine. She was put together at Whampos. The Chinese passengers were on the main deck; above that is called the promenade deck, the latter part of which is also devoted to Chinese paasengore. above this deck is called the hurricane deck.

THE CHINA MAIL,

by its sound, a hole ought to have been bored. It is the special duty of the sasist ant Engineer to make the examination. .

The Attorney General: Would a proper oxamination of that plate have disclosed the state of that plate 1

Mr Kingsmill objected to the word "pro per being used; this was one of tho ques- tions for the Jury to docide.

The Chief Justice said this was a ques- tion of skill.

Mr Kingsmill said if it was confined to skill, he would not object.

Swatów.

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to every part of the oilers. Sunday was the nocturnal nuisance, to which I refer. I too highly praised for the measures taken to the day in which the engineers made the avall myself of his opportunity to warn those preserve order and security on the morning examination. I have seen them at the to whom my remarke point, that it is fast of the execution. A scaffold had been raised examinations at o'clock in the morning approaching the stage that will necessitate in the middle of the bridge facing the market and 8 or 9 o'clock at night. On the 27th action on the part of the suffering neighof Cholon. Long before the time of execu- March, we were burning Takasima coal on bours.

tion the neighbourhood of the place was experiment. We burnt Sydney coal on the Add to this almost unprecedentedly hot occupied by thousands of persons, Chinese, Kinskan; it is known as co-operative" Jane the want of night-rest to those who Indians, and Annamites, many Europeans opal. Takasima coal wouldn't burn, and I cannot afford to spend the working hours being also present at the spectacle. At half- don't think more than 16 lbs. presenze could of the day by playing on guitar or piano, past six precisely the famitan was heard, have been got from that soal. On the 28th, but to sweat at the desk and make an honest announcing the arrival of the condemned, we resumed burning the co-operative." penny; and you have what appears very who were in the middle of a company of One man sounding a plate might pro-inconsiderate and reprehensible.

mattas, each having a chain on his neck. The question was remodelled.

nounce it fit to go on perfectly safe.

Yours faithfully,

They wore brought on to the scaffold whore Witnes-lf a proper examination had for six weeks, while another man might

E. E.-E. they were placed on their knees. The Chi been made the previous Sunday, it would say **3311 put ontage patch... next have disclosed the state of that plate. But Sunday." I am the marine and ongi be mutually considerate. We know 20- placed in the middle a little apart from the [Neighbours of different tastes ought to ness, Atai, the chief of these wretches, was thon a man might not have discovered it neora superintendent of the Company thing of the real facts here hinted at; but others; their chains were loosed, and the neok by sound; one man's hearing is different. I would sometimes make an examination would suggest a perusal of an article on

of each shaved. A detachment of marine in- to that of another. In this particular part myself. I have done so to the Kinehan our sixth page of last Saturday's issue-fixed bayonete, in the market was a detach- fantry occupied the head of the bridge with of the super-heater, he had to take a lamp about eight months ago. The bielers of ED. C. M.1 with him. He might or might not have the Kinshan had been surveyed thres sounded the particular place; it was im months ago for the 'purpose of insurance, possible for a man to examine the boilers Mr Groen, the superintending engineer of all over in one Sunday; the examination the F. & Ó. Company, made the survey,

Swatow, June 21, 1876. is. made from Sunday to Sunday. HoHe sent in a report which was forwarded would not have time to examine all the to Landou. He passed them. There had Fel Ho, from. Takao, May Queen, from Arrivals during the past week.-June 15, | parts on one Sunday, The boilera were

been no accident to the Kinshan during Newchwang, Benedicts from Amoy, Rajab, cooled down on Saturday night. The en- the whole time she was in charge of the from wreck of Japan, Salacia, from New gineers usually go into the bollers at 1st prisoner. The boilers were made at chang, and Estepona, from Saigon; 16, 'clock on Sunday morning. It was suff the Novelty Iron works, but I had no Tientsin, from Hongkong,. Douglas, from two before. Sometimes they had gone in One portion of the plate is almost as good Brons, from Chefoo, and Charley, from ciently cool for them to go in one hour or connection with that establishment then. Cosat, Bedwig from Newohwang, Gesine at 4 colook, but they could not gst now as when it was less. Paris wat Newchwang 17, Andreas, from New into the super heaters at that hour. It another part is worthless. This might chwang, and Yesso, from Hongkong; 18, would take two days to examine the boiler have been caused by some latent defect in Charlotte Andrews, from Bangkok, 19, properly. A proper examination by bydrau❘ the iron.

Leonor, from Hongkong. Esmeralda, from lic pressure could be only made by the Re-examined-A latent defect would be Amoy, and Norna, from Hongkong; 20 The executioner took it by the hair and held steamer being laid up. The steamer had

Chefoo, from Shanghai vis Amoy, Ashuelot been running steadily for three years.

The Attorney General asked what was

The A. G. having elicited that hydraulic bien and Willie, from Hongkong.

and Palos, from Hongkong; 21, 05lum the state of the other super-heater. pressure and pressure of steam acted

bir Kingsmill objected because it had no equally as test throughout, asked how it 10, Douglas, for Hongkong, Foochew, for Departures during the past week.-June bearing on the osse,

happenedthat the two ends were no differ-Shanghai vis Amoy, and Feiho, for Ooksen; ently affected.

Nagasaki, Yesso, for Coast Ports, and 17, Rajab, for wreck Japan, Norden, for

Yung Ohing, for Shanghai; 18, Carria brooke, for Singapore; 19, Leonor, for Amoy via Tamsui, and Esmeralda, for Hongkong; 20, Olympia and Tientsin, for Shangbai, and Androklos, for Tientsin; 21, Samoa and Jessie McDonald, for Chefoo, and Norza, for Hongkong,

so thick that nothing could be seen, it was oboking and blinding the passengers. All the passengers ran forward. I and my friend also ran, Wong Achow ran before me but I missed him! We ran forward to The attorney General in opening the the fore-peak, Wo did so to avoid the Case for the prosecution, said it was now smoke; there was a ladder, there going up. his duty to lay the facts of the case before to the upper deck. The smoke was sick the, urt, and it was his duty to charge that nothing could be seen. I reached the the prisoners with having caused the death upper deck, I missed Wong Achow at the of a Chinese passenger through the culpa-time of the rush. When the smoke was ble negligenca of their duty. The law-did clear I looked for. Wong Achow and found not require that the carriers should oxout him. I found him dead below the latch in ciao that care which would ensure absolute the fore-peak, This was not the place for safety to the persons whom they carried, passengers to be in. This was half-an-hour but it did require that ordinary caro. after the explosion. The Ichang then came should be taken so as to save pas- alongside and took the passengers off the sugers from any injury which humon Kinshan. I accompante the body to the foresight could provent. In a case of Hospital and saw Dr. Wharry who took this fritid, it was different to that of an charge of the body, notion for damages for injuary sustained, because in an action for damages, it was necessary only to prove that the defects in the machinery did exist. But in a prosocu- tlon for manslaughter, it was necessary to go further. It must be proved that not only the defects existed but that the persons in charge ought to have known that the defects This witness was also not cross-examined. existed; and if he was not, it was culpable Inspector Grimes was called to prove the negligence on his part. If a man know removal of the body of the deceased from that the steam engine was defective and yet the Kinshan to the Hospital. be employed it, he would probably have to answer for a charge of murder if any dne

Captain G. U. Sands, marine superio was killed through it. But if defects exist-tendent of the Hongkong, Canton and Ed, and it was the duty of the man in charge to have known it, he would be guilty of manslaughter, and thin was the class of case now before the Court. The facts of the

were briefly these, Оп the morning of the 6th of May the steamer Kishan left the wharf at 8 o'clock as usual for Canton. About 20 minutes past eight, when a short distance from here, an explosion of the auperheater took place, and there was great rush of steam and smoke, so that now thing could be seen for a time. At the time of the explosion, the deceased was seated at the place where Chinese passengers generally were. De was in his usual health and intended to go to Canton. But after the accident he was found lying under a hatch stone dead. His face and other parts of his body showed signs of seald, Tho first question for the Jury to decide Was whether the death was caused from

The Chief Justice observed that the avor explosion. Probably they would be told that Two gang-ways aft lead down to age was a very different thing from the the deceased died from a fall, but he (the the main-deck, and one ladder at the fore- maximum How did the witness know learned A.(7.) would tell them that if he fell part. When the explosion took place, the thut the prossurs did not reach over 25 ? when blinded by the steam the result was the steam and smoke passed down the funnel Witness aid the engineers bad their same as if his death was occasioned by the through the super-heater into the fire-room, orders. On the 24th and 25th March the explosion. The explosion was caused by theves it dispersed throughout the main-pressure was 20 lbs. Mr Lang appears the bursting of a plate of the super-heater, deck foro and aft. (Plan of construction rat on 17th April. When be returned the lower portion of the funnel or the of boilers put in). I examined the boilers gave the usual precautions to him to take upper-part of the boilers. He then explata on the 7th May; I did not do so on the care of the boilers. After looking through od the construction of the super-bestor. 6th because they were too hot. I found the the boilers, he said as far as he could see It was the upper plate of the inner upper platos inside the super-heator brok- they were in good condition. We had no ossing that gave way and caused the ex- The super-heater has an inner occasion to hurry on account of the Johang, plosion. Had it been the outer casing that and outer caring and is entirely inde-as we could get to Canton quickly enough burst, the consequence might have been pendent of the funnel, A plate of on 22 to 25 lbs. of steam. Captain Cary still more serious and would have probably the innor casing had exploded. That who was in command is now on his way to affected the safety of the vessel. If the upper plate had been in that position America: he was examined before the engineers knew that the plate was re-

since the formation of the boilers about Magistrate, and he went home on medical duced to auch a condition of thinness and three years before the explosion. I am a pro- certificate. Mr Morton was chief officer; yet continued to put on the same pressure fessional engineer. The plates of the he will be down about four o'clock. of steam, they would be directly responsi-super-beater are more subject to wear and The Attorney General said he would put blo. The question here was whether they tear than any other part of the boilers, in the depositions of Captain Cary. ought got to have known that the plato The average duration of boilera The Chief Justice asked if the A. G. was was--so thin and to have reported to about ten years. The duration of the to call Me Cary. He thought the Court their superiors. If the jurors decided that super-heater depends entirely on the action had been treated very disrespectfully, and they ought to have known, be what the of the steam. Steam wastes the iron away. it was advisable to teach some people their consequenco might, their duty was to find I have every reason to believe that the duty. He had no right to leave the Colony the guilty of manslaughter. The plate piste in Court was the plate which without communicating with the Court, was not very thick and had boen in had burst. Its original shape was On being called, without eliciting any use for some three years, and sous few curve and it had a fracture of about one response, the Chief Justice said he forfeit montba ago it had been thought necessary to foot long diagonally. The piece of ironed his recognisance. put on a patch. The effect of farther use produced was the fractured part. The reduced the plate to the thickness of of broken plate was flattened out to get a an inch, while the pressure of 25 lbs was more than the plate could bear. It was of the utmost importance to the public that passanger-carriers should exercise the

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Objection upheld. Witness The Ichang, the opposition boat, was put on the lina soms eight months ago." The pressure was then decreased. I told them to carry from 27 to 80 lbs. We had been running previously on from 21 to 22 lbs. The engineer's log-bock produced gives the average, but the presumption is that the maximum never reached over 25. Orders were given subsequently not to allow a pressure of over 25 lbs.

very bad if discovered by a stroke of the

hammer.

Mr Kingsmill objected; but his objeu tion was overruled and then withdrawn..

Witness replied that the damage was caused by the action of the steam or latent defect of the plate. A stop-valve was put in about a third down the boiler, and in all reason there ought to have been from its position an equal action on the plate, and no accident. The greater part of the deterioration has taken place since the patch was put on; if the plate had been so thin then, it would have been remedied alto gether. No man would have rieked his life with a plate like that.

Charters Effected during the past week. Samos, Amer, sch., 3,800 picule, Chefoo to Swatow, 16 cents poc picul, 17 lay days; Jessie McDonald, Brit. sel, 7,000 picula, Chefoo to Swatow, 18 cents per pioul, 17 lay days; Willie, Brit, sch., 6,000 picule, to Chefao and back, 20 centa per picul, 26 lay days; Salacia, Brit, bqo., 10,000 picule, Newchwang to Swatow, 18 cents per picul, 17 lay days.

By the Court-Mr Lang examined the boiler on the first two. Sundays after his arrival in April. I could not say how long he was in the boiler. I do not know how long he was in on the occasions in Vessels in Port June 21st, 1876.-Afouge, question. There has not been so minute Fr. bq., laid up, Albatros, Ger, bq., for an examination (occupying two days) as I Tientsin, Armida, Swed. acht, Andress, have before said was necessary for two con Gar. bq, Bridgetown, Br, bq., for Tientsiu, secutive daya: that could not be done un-Charley, Br, bq., Charlotts Andrews, less the steamer were laid up. So far as Br. bq., Columbiau, Br. str., Cheloo, Br. practicable this was done. The chief en str., for Shanghai, Frohlich, Ger. bg, for gineer had given me satisfactory reports of Tientsin, Hedwig, Swed. bq, Benedicts, the condition of the boiler. If the engineer Ger, suht., May Queen, Br. by., Salauia, had sonnded that particular plate on the Br, bq., for Newchwang, Tek 1, Ger. bq, Sunday previous to the accident, be must for Tientsin, Wandering Minstrel, Br. bq., have discovered the defect. It is possible that this part of the plate, might have been Willie, Br. sobr., for Chefoo,

missed. The officers on board know of the printed regulations of the Company, al- though none have been issued quite Intely. If they did not know the regulations, it was my fault.

The Chief Justice said that witness had stated some engineers might have sounded the plate and said it would stand for six weeke, while others would advise imme.

Foochow.

TING'S PROCLAMATION,

A letter dated 16th inat. says:-No rain this morning, and the weather in fine. My servant observed the following pro- lamation being posted about, and I ordered him to take a copy for your information. Ramour saya there is a probability of a

ment of mounted gendarmes, and the mattas were ranged on each side of the bridge. All the windows and balconies of the houses" were occupied by spectators. At a quarter to seven the chief executioner and his assist aut drew from their eases the instruments the eyes of two of the condemned were of death, which they carried on their backs, bandaged, one saw a flash, heard a blow, and two bleeding heads rolled on the scaffold

chief of the assassins, was the last, and he covered with sawdust. A few seconds later two more heads joined the first: Atai, the submitted stoically, refusing to have his eyes bandaged. His head, like the four others, was separated from the trunk by a single blow it up to be seen by the assembly. Two of the criminals who had been converted had esch a bier, on which their bodies were

others were simply thrown into a cart and placed after the execution, while the three taken away.-Indépendant de Saigon,

Manila.

Instant,

We have Ales of Manila papers up to 21st

thunder-storm visited that provines on the From Fampanga, we learn that a fearful 29th ultimo, causing mush destruction to property. One man was killed and another wounded by an electric discharge.

the police had an encounter with a band of From Laguna, dates are to the 10th inst,, robbers on the 2nd inst., after a severe struggle the latter decamped, leaving behind one dead.

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poot of the orop is very satisfactory, should From Pungasinan, we hear that the as- the weather continue dry a good outturn is anticipated. The robbers have given much trouble to the police. date of 27th inst: Dense clouds of lopusts From Capiz the Governor reports under have visited this province. Measures have been taken for their destruction, however great apprehensions are felt for the safety of the orop, which is now in a flourishing stute.

The people mustered in great number to face The same plaguo has visited Antique. the enemies; rockets, firecrackers and bon- files were resorted to to frighten the insects and direct their light to the ocean.

In one distriot 15 cavanes full of locusts were

gathered, and in 3 others 347, 39 and 120 cavanes respectively were collected. incalculable mischief has been done to the

Albay was also infested by locusts, and

crop.

In Iloilo, 12 cavanes full of loouts were caught. A gang of robbers set fire to a house in the district of Zaragosa, and then left for the jungle, taking with them 25

The Al G. submitted that Mr Cary diadiate repairs: Was this the condition of recurrence of the disaster within three days, buffaloes and 2 women belanging to the

Solicitor.

Mr Kingsmill added that, when acting for his learned friend the A. G., he was

new plate. The thickness of the brokening with anyone; he informed the "Crown piece was about th of an inch; its original was ths of an inch. The plate was tras. tired at: 25 lbs. steam. The state of that part could be ascertained by examination sounding it with a hammer,

It is the duty of the engineers on board the Kinehan to examine the boilers.

The Attorney General: State in detail what were the duties of the prisoners in reference to the boilers.

notified that Mr Cary was compelled to leave, and that it was a matter of life or death.

Dr Young having deposed to the state of Mr. Cary's health, bie Lordship observed that the Governmiont could exercise its dis- cretion in the matter. It was remarkable that Mr Cary said nothing at the time he entered into his recognisance; it mialed the Magistrates.

A conversational discussion then ensued upon the A. G. asking for leave to have the deposition of Mr Cary read. Mr King- smill objected, as it would interfere with

steamers?

safety the do not attach much

and I sincerely hope that the prophecy will Witness thought it would be found to be not he fulfilled, the general routine of business on board of steamers.

show that the pressure was 26lbs. on the day The Engineers' Log Book was put in, to she accident took place; and a plan was fracture of the superheater occurred. -^ also put in indicating the place where the

The deposition of Capt. Cary was then read.

Mr Henry Morton, Chief officer of the White Cloud, was called :—I was Chief off- der of tho Kinshan, on the 6th May. The steamer was going on that morning from 10 to 12 knots, her usual speed.

Was.

This witness was not cross-examined. Mr David Robb, R. N., acting inspector of Machinery of H. M. Naval Yard in this Colony, was called:-I saw the plate at the Coroner's inquest. That plate in barely ths of an inch thick; the thinnest part is th of an inch thick. The thinnest part was underneath to where the patch The part where the explosion took place was a triffe thicker, I have been 28 years in the navy in the engineering department the whole time. I was first engineer. The boiler plate in Court was attached to Woolwich as a journeyman not safe for any pressure whatever. It might be used for a very limited time at a There was nothing in the position of the much reduced pressure, not beyond 10 lbs.

examined. An examination of the saper- superheater to prevent the plate being heater would have disclosed the true state of the plate. The state of the plate was caused by the chemical action of the water. There is acid in the water.

The Court was then adjourned till to- morrow at 10 am, when Mr Robb will be orces examined. Mr Kingsmill intimated that he will not call witnesses for the de fence, and the case is likely therefore to

nish to-morrow,

The prisoners were liberated on the

to-morrow. security of Capt, Sands to appear again

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The following is a translation of the Pro- clamation issued by H. E. Ting, given in

out to him, and it is likely to be more short simple verses so that even the most illiterate would understand it when read impressed on his mind when circulated in

this form:

Proclamation issued by Governor Ting. The Province of Fokien suffers suddenly this great calamity.

Floods having risen to the height of over ten feet;

Walls of houses were everywhere swept away, or else fell down,

And even though there had been human assistance at hand, it would have been of no avail.

Of the dead there are no coffins to cover them up;

Of the living there are po houses for them to live iu.

Oh, my poople what fault have you to merit this?

The sight is indeed painful to the eye and to the feelings,

It is I who am remis in duty,-who

homelessness. have involved you in a state of misery and

When the water shall have receded, you all ought to return to your homes early. In order to maintain by strenuous efforts your householde..

Do not be alarmed of robbera, For there are soldiers and bravo who patrol day and night to protect you.

Do not be sorrowful for fear of hunger, for grael will be served out morning and even- ing to relieve you.

ported us having been perpetrated by this daring gang..

There is no news from Manila. Intense heat with some showers of rain at intervals were the order of the day. The feast of

targ have been invited to attend the proces- Corpus Christe was celebrated with great pomp. All the authorities civil and mili.

aion.

While noticing the load-line regulation. lately applied to all British vessels, one of the Manila papers (El Comercio) suggests that the same obligation should be put upon all Spanish vessels, so as to put an end to certain abuses which endanger the sea-faring people.

A gold mine was lately discovered by one Vicento Panganiban in the province of Camarines Norte.

It is stated from Iloilo that a brigantine named Riquéza, with about 2000 pioul of Sugar, was wrecked in the coast of Antique, but no lives were lost. The price of sugar is slightly altered in consequence.

Quotations.

Hoxeкoke, June 26, 1876. OPIUM.-Now Patna, cash... 385

credit, 5871 Old Patna, sesh.... ***

credit,

11

Ft

New Benares, cash, 587-

credit, 370

Old Bonares, cash, 687

credit, 890

New "Malwa, cash, 505

crédit, 670 Allowance Tacks, 6 a 12

Exchange. Bank, 6 months' sight, ......3/10/ Credit, 6 months' sight,.....8/10

Calcutta, Bank demand,...280 Bombay, demakd,

CB 230

A large fleet of steamers have gone to bring rice here,

And will all arrive in a few days. Oh, my people! Do not be over-sorrowOn ful! Your misery will be of but short dure tion.

greatest care for the safety of the passengers they carried, and it was necessary, there fore, for the Jury to form a correct notion of the duties of an engineer. It appeared that tire Kinshan ran every day in the week be tween here and Canton and that only a few houra on Sunday formed the only intervals during which the boilers could be examined. Mr Kingsmill objected on the ground The Attorney General would ask, if a proper that witness must first bring to the know. examination was made, whether the defect ledge of the prisoners what those duties could not have been detected. The engiwore. neers of the steamer kept a book in which The Court suggested that witness might the pressaro of steam, the number of be asked what were the duties of the on revolutions and the time occupied in the gineers on board other shipa. voyage, were entered. Some months ago Witness As a rule, men of their pro-his cross-examination of Captain Sands. another steamer in competition to the foesion knew what their duties wera. The The A. G. said he did not wish the depost Kinshan began to run, and instructions were chief engineer has entire control of the tion read now: he only asked for leave. givon the engineers to put on a greater department, he is responsible both for the His Lordship, after making a suggestion, preasure, and this of course increased the working of the engines and boilers. He admitted that he would got understand what tear and wear of the machinery. On a day has to examine every part of the mathey meant. in March the pressure was materially rechinery. It is usual to make the examina At this stage the Court adjourned. duced. It would be seen that on the 27th tion from Monday to Sunday; that is the March the pressure of steam was reduced rule in force. The second engineer's duty from 25 lbs. to 16 lbs, It was, however, is specially to look after the boilers. He

When the Court resumed, Capt. Sands raised on the return voyage to 25 or 26 lbs, goes inside on Sundays and examines The lat prisoner has been all the time on

was cross-examined by Mr Kingsmill We found that on the reduced pressure, the with a hammer or piece of iron or chisel. board the Kinshan, but the 2nd prisoner Ichang got to Canton first. faval fact. The instructions they received tion, he calls the chief engineer's attention to

is was a If he sees anything requiring extra atten- has been two or three times only; the last were to beat the Lohang if they could do so it. I am neatly every day on the wharf bath very good officers; both are competent time was for about ten months. They were with safety. If it was then necessary to when the steamers leave the wharf. If reduce the pressure in March, how much any defoot is discovered, it is the chief and outer plate is about 15 or 18 inches. men. The width between the inner plate more was it so to have made a proper ex engineer's duty to report it to me if it is The super-hoater is about 18 feet high and smination of the vessel In the month of very serious if not serious no report will is flat on top. When the steamer returned March, the second defendant was acting be made to mo. I have no remembrance of to harbour after the accident, she arrived Chief Engineer, but on the 17th April, he the particular patch is the burst plate bere about past 4 p.m. I was brought up handed over charge to the first prisoner who being put on there had been a patch an engineer and am owner of the Novelty had been on leave, and since then the latter put on just below the franture. The patch Iron Works. had been directly responsible for the engines, was on the seam of the plate. It had been stances, the duration of super-heaters in Under ordinary elroum. while the Bad was more particularly respon hammered

out when the plate was comparison with boilers is about six months. Bible for the boilers, but it was his duty to straightened in order to take the size of have known super-heaters to keep good control his anbordinate. The Attorney Ge- the plate. The patch is entirely invisible for 12 months and have seen them run on neral, apprehended that neither the witneszes now. The patch was put on because the for 4 or 5 years. It depends very much nor the prisoners themselves would say that steain had eaton the iron away. It was the plate so thin as it was, could bear a pre-put on to strengthen the plate. The patch the shape of the construction. If the heat on the construction of the boilere, I mean sure of 26 lbs. He did not think that they was about 8 or 10 inches below the knew the state of the plate, or else they would fracture. The thickness of the iron under passes through tubes, the notion of the not have been in the sogine room them the patch was scant an eight of an inch.

beat is less on the super-heaters. Bome- times the action of wasting away of the selves. But the question here was reduced The presence of the patch increases the iron depends on the quality of the iron, to a very small compass "ought they not deterioration of the plate it depends sometimes on the pressure of the steam Atobare known 1" If they had made a pro- on how the patch was put on. I am

sometimes the fibres of the iron assume per examination, they could not have falled not. Award of any report of that different aspects in the thickness of the to discover the weak state of the plate. After patch having been made tr

me, plate between skla and skin.

It may some further remasks the A. G. said that No speci 1 report was made to me as to the happen when the outer fibre is eaten away by the frequent ding-denging of the R. C. this accident had necessitated the Kinshan plate being in any way dangerous. If a the notion of the steam plays upon a differ. Cathedral's bells, which cannot be very been stiding The rains which had com to go into docks, and it was found that the patch was necessary, the engineers would ent kind of fibre, and might come upon a agreeable to nervous people. It is at any moneed have ceased suddenly Advices corresponding plate of the other super mentida to me that a patch was requi- third kind of fibre. As soon as the outer rate a day nutsance, and does not go so far from the interior say that the rice-plantations site. I made no note of such reports With skin of the iron is broken, and the iron is as to interfere with one's night-rest. Some are much needing water, and if they are not Fogard to the particular patch; they might of imperfect manufacture-it may be of people like the ding-donging of balla, but shortly inundated the next crops will suffer. Lae Ayow was examined lam the have reported it to me, but I don't remem loose grain--then the deterioration sets nobody dislikes meals. There is, however, We also learn that the actual temperature Strner of a cargo bost. On the 16th May bur. If anything dangerous was discovered, in much more rapidly. I mean by re- time and limit for everything. When she caused much sickness among the troops; last, I was a passenger, on board the Kit & written report was sent is to the offles by sponsible that the engineers are responsible plane is kept going almost throughout the the hospital is full of slak, most of the shan, to go to Cantoa. "I went together with the engineers and the Captain. No report to their employers. It is the duty of the day in the very midst of mercantile firms, suffering from dysentery, Bun-strokes are wharf at 8 km. I and my friend were sit mo. A man named Wong Adha. Ws left the as to the super-heaters had been made to oblet engineer to examine every part of the it cannot be expected to be liked by those also to be feared at the prevent time

No report of the boilers had basa machinery. The Kinshan was 250 nominal whost mental faculties are fully occupied on we regret to have to report two cases ting on the forepent of the hated way, made to me either. It was by my dired horse-power, but usually worked 600 horas. the wheels of business to them musis is as which have saken place recently, both of which was open at arst but was shut when tions that the steamer was carrying a pres power. She had two boilers, and a super much a nuisance as the ringing of the bells them having fatal results one of them in the steamer started. We were sitting on dure of 25. fts. I would not have given heater to each boiler. The superficial area to some

that of a foreign capitaiff, Mr Overgaauw, the planking of the deck. We were sitting such a direction had I known the state of the of the inner lining of the super-beater is 200

I wish I could have stopped here. Jovial commander of the Dutch vessel Sunda, and ebut 10 to 20 feet, from where there was. plates. I was not aware that the iron in feet; the outer Aning in double that. When gatherings at not a mile from the Clock the other that of a brigadier of police, whe Wong Ashow was sitting by my side, near that particular locality was so thiu. The deterioration sets in at the edge of a plate, Fower appear to have become the order of hung himself in a moment of mental de eat to the fire. We were on the main deck, eract thickness of the iron could have been it can be seen.

place where all the passengers were.discovered by boring a hole in the plate. deteriorated when the piece of patch was up until past midnight. Neighbours suffer

If that plate had become the right now-a-days, and they are kept rangement caused by a sur stroke,

On Monday, the 2nd instant, the authors After we left the wharf a short distanse, It is not always usual to test boilers by put on, it would have been seen and by this, whose comfort and night-rent ap of the horrid crime committed on board the about half-an-hour aftor starting, an ex-boring a hole it is examined orally by plosion was heard. At once the deck was hammering, which is almost as good a test patahed. The patch had been put on about pear to be treated by the jovialists by tacit Pelican, on the night of the 24th March last, 4, 5 or 6 months ago. When a test by and emphatic rejoindir, of "maskeo," Buttered the sentence which condemned them filed with black smoke it came from the If one is not certain of the state of the iron hydraulic preestre is Caried on, it extende as I cald eboss, everything has a lirait, and to decapitation. The Government cannot be Jower mart of the funnel," The eweke wa

beater was in the same state,

Evidence was then called.

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