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No. 5443.-DECEMBER 20, 1880.

from that place this morning. According to a telegram received about noon to day, the lule ciliated at about two lakhs of dollaw. The Onion Fire Co. is again stated to be free from loss, although the long kong has suffered to: some-extent. Those frequent fires ought surely to promote re- form in the directions where reformation in

Was that the only time to your know. ledge the ship course was altered since leasing Hakodadi Wa altered it many times before rounding the south-west point of Yesto, It was the only time, after shaping the ship's course about 9.60 p.m.

How long was it after altering the course the last lime before the ship struck

THE CHINA MAIL.

a modb.

Ching

BHANGRAJ,

{News.

The Russian corvette Digit arrived yes heels (13th) from Kobe

five or six minutes elapsed before he acted then gave orders to tear away the boats, on my advice. At that time I should say which duty was appointed to me. It took we could see the land right abonad twelve or three or four winntra to clear away th fourteen miles; on the starboard beam,boats. My duty was to watch the steering should say not more than five or six milos if under the opptatt's direction. I did not

notice any set of the ship to the South. Sh was drawing fourteen feet three intues aft,

Sa Mr Labouchere, writing în Truthe and vine fost cight inches forward, on leaves in the newspapers that an in- ing Amoy do not remember passing portant Chinese-fanotionary is about to visit through the channel before. She was not several countries to strange details respect- drawing more

water

and

*To Captain James:— Looking at the chart I think it was not possi'sla thou to lay the position of the ship off by cross ben-iugs.

To Lieutenant ClarkConsidering the bezy and indistinct condition of the land,

znost desirable; if not, risks in Yokohams About ten minutes of a quarter of an hour. reported or lights on the starboard tom, ordered, In the event of a typhoon spring, myjadgment an to the land being only 1 mile charmet being so wellsual Theing the advent of onoliss. I walt nuggeść.

will be less readily taken, we fancy, than

over.

or It may be that Consul Mosby's advocacy or 13 minutes No, I think about fifteen orders, The apood was alx know. It was N. B. sounding were, takexi at

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· LOSS OF THE BRITISH STEAMER DOUGLAS.

MARIE COURT OF ENQUIRY..

Tue

before you were I think the staff commander was not either, Thomson's Patenting. I think the loas of the British steamship Douglas,aft at vnce and sounded after-hold, and found, was commenced in which Mr I. H. Jobason

superintended the

Did the alteration of the ship's coniña | bear sonndiage called. The leadamen were officer of the ship.. It fi nof the custom for tend to put the ship mors in shors or off is the chains. Deep son soundings were not the navigating efficer to leara orders with It-In shorn,

taken. it won a xire clear zight.

the mate or the midshipman on watch as to To Captain Cleveland was at the the proximity of laud. I know of no orders standard compass after the course was left. There is no staff commander's book altered to N. by W. W. I received no with right orders for the mate of the orders from the officer of the watch not to watch. I did not acquaint ·the' staf"} go anything to the sasiwari, but rather to commander with the cast for soundings. the westward of the coures.

did not communicate with him during the To Commander James After the cours† watch at all. I should not have possiderad was altered at 9.45 I did not hear a light if my duty to communicate with him anless By Commander James: Was the course There was no fog or fog bank in the first ing up, if no one had told him

was comowhat liable to be in error. The been survey (rooky bottom having to this Oriental to pay us a visit, and West by North take to taken the ship watch.

forthwith to take measures to send over to was the only should have done so. aux aware that the euess was altered spparently to clear the cause for the lead act going. The skip was us a few thousand of his countrymen further off or nearer to the shore i-If tho

M. Musgrave: I was serving on board the quartermaster of the witch bas ordera to paint on the port bow, supposing you to be only goingaight knats at one o'clook when I

domestic servants. As it is, it is almost The last fans of the Gazette was vagoth ship had been in the position she was sup- Iron Duke during the fint watch on 29th Loommuilaste with the staff commander ssto ignorant of a reef or island on the south of bove the log, The course was not altered, impossible to procure good onoa,"

posed to be in, it would have taken her off“ July last. I was in the okkios at the time. what is going on. I am not aware of the it. It would have been asfer to have alter and I considered the thin was on the proper steamship Dongias on the 11th inst., there When the steamship Ningga passed the of watched for by a few confiding persons, who the land and clear

danger.

I went into the chains at the last hour of quartermaster at any time calling the staffed more than five or six points. I don't coores, White Island being right ahead. It Re-examined by the Court-Was it the watch; I got no sounding, it was s commander, I and the quartermaster of think I am lo error as to you deliterating was a fresh monsoon, and a clear day, was less of the vessel visible than when she expected to find in it further correspondence during the fog she struck and was land rather clear night; but there wars hazy the watch attended to the apparatus, in for five or six minutes, as I repeated the ad- Ah Mat, & native of Sumaira, having been passed through the Channel before, although about the passenger trade bence to Heno-visible I was on deck within thres or alouds about. I relieved another man in sounding. I reported to the officer of the vice after it appeared to me that fully that warned to speak the truth, stated. I was funnel had been, hemoved, and it was the water was lower. The Doylan'ı lala. Those who have more experience in four minutes of the abip striking. I could the chalna, I got 13 fathoms line up and watch. I am not aware that the quarter: tima. had elapsed.

steering the ship when she strusk N.E. by believed not only that she was settling official modes did not expect to see any on 100 yards from the sain told that Elent. E. J. Eleves. I was officer of the was relieved at 4.10. It was not daylight morning at 9.30.

down. I got thas with ome;

master reported to the staff commander. The Court then adjourned till to-morrow E. Es by captain's direction, for a quarter down, but that she was also being broken Br Lant. Clarke Wore you

of an hour, and 3.E. by E... before. further documents than those already dia- land had been seen on the starboard bow ? second watch on board the Iron Duke on then it was misty. I cannot say how far

Did not alter the sourso after steering N.E. up by the action of the water. The Sparton obe could see then. the 29th July last. The course was W. by

by E.-4 E. Was ordered to hard a star. and also the two junkie takon to the spot by closed. But, it taight fairly be asked why was told so afterwards.

Do you not think that the interval beN. W. westward. I relieved Mr Deurey.

T. Leigh; I WAS

was on duty as quarter.

board"" after Bergking

Captain Vincent, so which we referred a day the whole of the correspondence has not twee alloring the course, and the ship I received the course, speed; revolu master on the Iron Duke in the middle

Mr F., D. Goddard, chiaf officer, having or two ago, were close by, as was also. been published. Probably it is not finished, striking might not have been more than 10 tons, chip's position, and the usual captain's watch July 30th. The couras was W. by

becu duly sworn, stated I was below o

H.M.S Magpio. W., it was not altered during the

the ZARÍA "deck at the time of the ship strik

In II. M. Supreme Court yesterday (13th), minutes. That is oot from my personal not altereil during my watch. The bouras Watch;

A Court of Enquiry was held on the 14th ing. Feeling her strike and hearing the before Chief Justice French and Jury of the Pacifio-Mall-and-Me-Haswell's square observation.

was-not-nitored during my watch. The two o'clock, the result was 10-Fathoms and instant, at the British Consulate, at Pagoda telegraph ring, I ran forward, and got the consisting of Messrs W. Pardon, C. Be Re-examined by the Court-Bow long captain was not on deck during my wateb. no bottom. tending the Anchorage, into the circumstances attending the fore-hold and found no water theo; raa V. D'O, Wintle, the hearing of an action and foarlose inquiries after knowledge are.

sounding

red from the carpenter. I unded Markes, S. Reynoll, J. L. Brown, and after the

ship

machine." struck was it not convenient just at the, present time,

on deck About three or four minute

but I am bot qu

i quite certain. Land was not when oil is being poured upon the troubled Can you give from your own knowledge seen during my watch. The hand lead was

formerly connected with the editorial and three to four feet of water. I ran on deck waters generally. It strikes us, howevor, the state of the weather previous to the used countantly during mag watch. No Teasel Biriking I happened to be up in soundings were called. One deepees sound ...that this question is not dead yot. the litter vari of the middle watch; I look ing was taken at one o'clock, 115 fathoms We understand that Mr J. Henningsen was ed round from my quarter galley and stern and no bottom. From 13 to 1 there w's a Imid no three or four miles blue sky, cloudy and misty. Then a minty lustalled yesterday at Gp.m. as Master of ports the Tonic Lodge for the coming, year and round the ship. Day was just breaking; fog came up in patches. It then olenrod & It was afficient light. Hitle and toward the end of the watch came that the ceremony was chiloted otses that it was 20 minutes to 4 o'clock. The on thicker. The course was properly Presence of five past-masters and several

atcered and more steadily than usual, the viailing brethren from H, M. S, Tron Duke, weather was a little hay.

night befog niet snd the water smooth. In the evening the members of the Lodge

To the President—I am not aware when entertained a large number of guests, and

the ship- was last swung for correcting dancing was kept up till the small hours. The band of the Iron Duke, kindly lost by

oompasses. The difference between th. standard compass end the binnaste ompass Amiral Coote, C.B., ; etformed an excellent

Witoons also stated that be wished to was about two points on the sun's bearing. programm, and a very pleasant evening as his statement as to the general con I did not recollett that it was on the point Fears to have been passed. Amoy Gazette, act of the prisoners, as it fight prevent we were steering. I did not think it Doc. 16,

bin having to come again before the Court. uecessary to get another cast of the

The Court was cleared to

by the Court took that one by order. I forget how I got that the said evidence could not be admit the order. I think it came direct from the nd while peror dwell; here he was enthroned, here married, bore sled. When he walked in war again opened and the prisoners and soundings were being tried for. thesa garden, mats were laid before him witness and audience admitted, and the de- as he stepped to keep his foot from too cisim read out as above. ing earth, and when he left them, as he rarely did, he was conveyed in a large carriage closed in by screens, and as be passed along the people stopped and wor. hipped. Any sya that an his saared form would, the people believed, be blinded by the sight. Buch, it appears, was the state of things thirteen years ago only, and

the got my watch

When the course was altered to W. by N., was it altarod by your order -No.

Witnes produced a plan of the locality by Admiral Duperré, which he wished to pises in the hands of the Court.

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soundings can be obtained by the machine one of Mic Messrs D. Laprafle and Cvr's count, at 300 fathoms. 1 stopped 270 fathoms

steamers sailing from this port. The par- because I thought the line was checked. 1 thought I had obtained bottom. I reported ticulars of the wreck we published shortly. to the officer of the watch, 170 fathome

after the occurrence; and the discovery of and no bottom." The teller showed no Bottom had boon obtained. It was pretty the rock where the accident took place, has clear at two o'clock. It was nice and clear also been natol. ap till one o'clock, and after that it was foggy

To the Court Thomson's machine had hand in the ship for six weeks. I was not

nequin with us three or four times I had only sest it used three or four times bofore this. I had boor instructed by Capt. Cleveland and Capt. James I was ruficiently acquainted with the machine to use il property, Instructions were left me by the quartermaster whom relieve, from the

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at once and reported to the captain, who reporting department at the Shanghai then gave orders to clear away the beats. Courier ofhoe, sought to remover $2,100 for I then went below and took off one of the Home from Me W. V. Drummond, the wrongful dismissal and a first-class passage after hatches, and saw the water had risen lessoo of the paper. above the tunnel. I told the passengers between decks get oa deck, and then

The Hon. J. F. Swill, United States High went on the bridge and remained with the Commissioner to China, leit yesterday (15th) By Iliobard Henry Napier, Esquire, Captain captain while she was beached. When the for Yokohamn, en routs for Home, by the

of Her Majesty's surveying-vessel ship struck I looked at the position of the M-B. Ce stouter Takasage Alaru,

The .N. Co.'s steamer Pekin, Captain Mugie, and Senior Naval Offer pre-One Foot Reck, and the ship did not appear H. S. Goodfellow, reports that the water- ho to leeward of her coures. I have been mark at Hankow was Ave feet eleven inches R. W. Mausfield, Eeq., 11.3.M.a. always in Douglas Lapraik's ships. Ieannet is evidentity beginning to interfere with the

sent at Pagoda Anchorage.

through that channel perhaps 30 times-

the 10th iast. The lowness of the water Finald Charles Prothero, RN, Her say for certain whether I have been through navigation of the river, as following state- Pagoda Anchorage Lieutenant Je Majesty vessel Magpie ; | being set to leeward by the tides at that mente from the ahin's report will show. At

at low water. I have never known of a ship place. Have seen the lend hove going IV. Cures do Friss

4.20 p.m. on the 11th inst, the steamer

To

Mr W

master British screw

J. Reed tells us that in the palace of Kio10, 9, and it was decided,onsider t . deep sea lead before I was reliuresi 1st commander to call him at two o'clock Mr Samuel Ashton, master, late of the Bri-through that channel. The rock the Dou-

In his recent work on Japan, Sir Edward

the old capital, until lately the god-etated antil the closs of the case. The Court Captain. The ship was no Speed tray at two o'clock.

The witness then withdrew,

report it to sayonn

[should plasstrack on is not on the chart. judge there was eleven feet on it when the ship strnok. Can give no information about

before the accident.

time

W

steamer Meanair.

Vries was aground for a short the Upper Crossing, Olyphant as he wanted to and. I did not report

tish steamship Douglas, having made ap- plication through Her Britannio Majesty's

Island; after getting off, the proceeded on the roult of the mounding to the staff commander. I called the staff commandor

Consul at Frochow, for a Naval Court to

her voyage. At 5 p.m., the Fekin anchored to render assistance to H. M. S. Sheldrake, He

be held to investigate the circumstances the currents derived from what I knew whore near the lower end of the same told me to cast for sounding, which

T I did.

attending the loss of that vessel in one of I am not sure

Mr William Clarke, obief engineer, having be useful to the man-of-war she got. or... island. While the steamer was trying to the passages between Rugged Island and whether I reported the reanlt to the staff

Lau Xit, at the, Western entrance of been sworn, stated-I was on deck when the the mud herself, where she refaaised until commander. I communicated with the

Huits Straits; and as I consider such ship struck. I felt the ship strike and the C.M.S.N. Co.'s steamer Kiangyung staff commander again during the watch, five minutes to four. He said to call hi

enquiry necessary, I do, in accordance heard the telegraph, ting, and I went below. towed her off at six o'clock the following at five or earlier if land was

with the Merchant Shipping Aut 1864, The third engineer, who was sighted

subsequent Acts, and amendment relating reported the ship was making a great deal evening. The gunboat was still shore when the Pekin resumed her voyage to Neither the Captain or the staff commander were, I think, on dock during the middle.

thereto, thereby order and direct you to of water amidships, I went underneath the

boilers and assemble together, to form and hold

found what appeared to me to hea Shanghai, watoli..

Naval Court at Her Majesty's Vicstole about 18 inches in diameter close to the beea in the Service ten years have recently Many of the Customs employés who have To Captain Cleveland - When I was at

Consulate at the Pagoda Anchorage, Foo- keel on the starboard side. I went deak the standard compeas I received an order to

chow, at 9.30 am, on the 14th instant, and reported to the saptain that I did not received the gratuity to which they are for that purpose.

entitled of one year's salary. We hear that think it possible to keep the fires in more over one hundred despataties in connection than from 15 to 20 minutes. Before going therewith same in one batch from Peking Instructions relativo to Naval Comets, a.

now the Mikado drives about the..treets of that the ship was going six knots, and I have since heard that it was underneath koop rather to the westward of the course Yedo te su open carriage, dresuod in dipio expected-to-see au Island on our portank. I looked for it in the drawer of than the eastward.

matio uniform,

we

on watch,

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Kove, I do not ropollect soundings being the chart house. It was not recovered To Captain James:I do not remember Your attention is called to the Board of Trades I ordered the third sngineer to put for Shanghai and other ports. As a result

reporting the sounding to you. I might have done it.

not slackened.. Sir William Thompson's patent apparatus for deep asa sounding was used. entered the result in the log; it Hugh Thou, Hibbert, midshipman: I was not reported. was on duty during the first watch on

I gave no directions to waa parily aware of our position to the land. The abart in de July 29th. The horizon was bad. It was pleat up till about nine o'clock when the was a small one, and showed nothing We were quite on the margin of fog bank obscured the horizon. There abend. was slight head wind: it was clear over the chart. The dead reckoning took us to head. I was told ou relieving the deck, the border if not over it. I then looked that for the other chart, and could not find it

sko, I don't recollect that the load was the

called. The speed of the ship was not

before I was

was relieved: I had no idea of altered. I don't remember the course to the distance which the stip may have been I think it was N. by. W, or W. from land or from any danger when I was point... (Before His Lordship the Chief Justice, Sir Alteration was made in the course about 10 relieved. I had never seen the other oburt o'clock to W, by N. No doop ses sound in connection with the position of the land John Smale)

ings were taken. We passed an island we were then approaching. I can't say on the port side about 11 o'clock. I am not whether the ailing directions were on certain of the name. I took cross bestings of the stand us did not look at them. dao, C. & Taylar, C. C. Corvette, T. Ewell as I eld with the arust no of the f

I was antisfied Davies, Alox. Young, Wai Yuk, and George fear of the watch. It was not entered

as I could judge from th

1 poasepast that from the Taufer.

in information. The first case was that in which Yu the log book. I do not know by whose distance run by the ship, that she was Aming, Ng Acheung, Chan Asaj, Luz orders the car was aléared at 10 o'clocs. Lin a safe position as regarda the praxionyfirst two hours, and then at the standarti Asam, and Tse Anik, were charged with the larceny of a silver watch and chain from one lp Sam Tim, a fortune teller, on the 20th November last.

SUPREME COURT.

IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Monday, Dec. 20, 1880.

The Jury consisted of Messrs A. 3. Bran-

Mr Li Hong Mi of the Magistrapy Office anted as interpreter of the Tok Lo, or Swatsw dialect. The evidence has beco given in our Police Court reports of the case. The whole of the five prisoners being now found guilty of the theft, evidence was pnt in of three previous convictions at the Police Court against the second defen- dant, and one for felony at the. Supreme Court, and convictions wore also proved against the 3rd and 4th prisoners. The sentences were deferred in ali

URSES.

Samuel Dann, quarter master: I was on I received daty on the middle watob. the ship's course, the course was Worth by We West. The course was not altered during my watch. Deep sea

did not see either the Captain or the staff commander on deck during the middle watch.

the commander.

Terence.

entitled.

I think it was Kosime, deck for tlist part of the coast, Iaudinga taken. I was not present, 1 Minutes of the proceed salate, Puroda res, and the third engineer tu sake the returs. He has laboured in Hongkow for

& copy of which will be supplied for re-all pumps and bilge injections on to the of these payments, it is said there is an engine-room bilgea, and found them all inflex of applications for leave of absence, Dated on board Her Majesty's surveying-working satisfactorily when I returned from infl

vesel Alaupie, at Pagoda Anchorage, Fan-deek, but the water was over the stakehole to which most of the recipients are also

Ten minutes from the time I show, this 18th day of December, 1880. plates.

We understood that the Rev. Dr. Nelson returned to the engine-room after report will shortly leave Shangbai for the United KICHARD H.NÅFIER. (Signed)

ing to the captain, the water was op to the of Naval Court, ash pits. I ordered the firemen to draw the States; and that it is his intention not to held at H.B.51,'s Anchorage, Fochow, on 14th December, safety valves, in oase of an explosion. Ey twenty-nine years in connection with the

mission of the Amerisan Protestant 1880. Present-R. W. Monsfield, Esq., the time the fires were drawn, the water

joopal Church, and it was mainly thi HI.B.M.'s Vice-Chosul, Lieutenant B. was as high as the furnace doors. I stopped his Prathero, H... Menziir,

Maggie,

Mr W. Ellis, the engines, and proceeded on deck. The his instrumentality that the fands were engine-room sluice was closed. I ordered raised for the erection of the Church of

Our Saviour,

in wh Hongkew, which he has Master, steambling the Court having if the third engineer, directly the ship atruok ministered since it was opened in 1884. been read, Mr Samuel ashton, late master olose the water-tight door leading from

left to call not aware of any ordern being To the Court I was at the wheel for

no

compass from 2 til 4. By the binnacle ompass the course was North W. I was vory particular in steering. I received instractions to keep rather to the Westwatc than to the Northward of the course. 1 raw no light or land during the watch. I had no order to call anybody. I did not aao Any leadsden in the chaius. I did not go off the aller bridge.

abandon the management of the Emma

C.M.B.N. Co.'s steamer

of the steatoship Doughis, hauded in his the angine-room to the tunnel. All hands We also hear that Miss Nelson is about to master's certificate, No. 17,854, issued at were below as soon as the ship struck, 13 Juues" school, and that she will 2000- London, 23rd April; also the certificate of all told. William Clarke, chief engineer, dated Lieutenant Henry Belam, Royal Navy, pany her father to the States.

When the Greenock, 22nd September, 1976, No. having been duly sworn, stated-Having Kianypiau, Captain Simmons, loft Hankow and that of Mr F. D. Goddard, about 3 o'clock a.m. on the 19th December, five fest ten inches, and the river was

been ordered

to sound by Captain Naper, at on 48,893ertificate, dated Hongkong, No.

the 8th inst, the water-mark was only 616, of 9th March, 1878. Mr W. G. 1680, the leadsman of t

of the boat, which

was falling at the rate of six inches par day, Parker, second mato, stated he had lost drifting with the tide, reported 24 feat, and Five fest ten inches is not the actual his certificate.

banling his lead up got 13 feat; the position depth of water at Hankow, as the wainitisted Mr Samuel Ashton, having been duly

might suppose; but shows that the water is to be in about a cable to the Southward of

corded by foreigners. As a matter of fact,

of the host was fixed by angles, and

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season of the year, and as it generally the water of the Yangtare is now lower than it was ever known to be at this particular

To the Court :-The fog bank into the land or danger. 1 pointed out to my whole of the first watch. It lifted at relief that the other chart should be avail. times. Yo far as I remember the leads able. I believed there was no land ahead men were in their proper places. I would To the Court:-The fog was in patahes have heard them ha! they bean calling between which you could get a glimpse of I wrote the log at avery hour. The island the horizon. The distance we could see e pased at 11 was not in sight at 12 varled oursiderably. We could see 200 os 800 yards at the thickest. The ship wA o'clock.

By Capt. Cleveland Lieut. Deurey out of it, as soon as she was into it. “I in- was the officer of the first watch. I re-formed the Captain that it had come on Not having been able to ind

S. Calloway, A.B. was in the starboard ceived no orders from bha as to visiting the thick

the other chart at 4 o'clock when I was chains as loadsman; the lead was being hove look outs and going the rounds. I did these as part of the routine, There relieved, I was actually ignorant of the constantly, he sounded between three and was no boxiz in sufficient to take any obeer ship's position with refrános to the fand, four o'clock, ho bad 12h fathoms of line, I told the officer who relieved me that the no bottom. The weather was foggy, One vations. To my knowledge the course is

sura, stated-I left Amoy on Saturday, returslur on board, the position was found only five feet ten inches from the lowest mark never altered without the Captain's orders shart was not to be found, and I said I could ses 300 or 400 yards from the ship. gare to avoid a colijalon,

thought it ought to be there. I cannot say James Baird, samas second-class, could 18th November, at about 10 p.m., haring the line of bearing given on the chart. In whether i suggested the advisability of its not recollect whether there were deep and crew of 67 persons, and general cargo, that the tides set to the Southward the on board 60 Chinees passengers, i salson, spending on that and previous day I found am not aware tha: soundings taken in the middle watch. being found at quos, be took any steps before I left the deck.

was stationed at the bridge and batterius,

bound for Foodbow. At about 2.45 F, on position the ship was anchored in, the food lent means, bringing a woman into the w Koshima Island W. by 8. S., 4 when I was

I did not call the Captain at 4 o'clock.

To the Court:The weather was foggy} Sunday, 14th, while passing through the Chore

it is feareil that some inconvenience sigus of day-break there Colony for the purposes of emigration, and W

thick fog. One could see 30 Channel between Passage and Cliff Islands, au to the South West and the ebb to the tinues to fall until the sad of Jaguary,

South East. I produce our own chart, with ralieve I It WAR 18 Farda. secondly with unlawfully bringing into this not toy handwriting. Lieut. Deurey often

1 had orders to keep a auarp look. my ship suddenly struck, and passed over a it W. NB, duik, as Colory & woman knowing that she had been used to rab out my entries and then enter very dark night.

out on the surouard bow for the land aud suuken rook imediately stopped the the position of the rack placed on it. The navigation will ensue. The Kiangriau only eleven feet at Olyphant Leland, Beoond

bor just purchased for purposes of prostitution. And the lug himself. The fox back was North it had been all the

waton. to leave the same order with my successor ship, and fourd she had passed over a rock. bearings from the rook are, "Rock one foot

draught. We understand that a collision har unanimone verdict of "guilty" was found pricipally. No lights were reported dur- The staff commander was not to my know. The morning was very dark, and the fog I gave orders to sound the ship; at the care high, N. 22. E. 3 8 cables. West rummit and we believe that was

dropping.

oubles. Soland, N. 48 W. 10 2 tak the engineer came on deck and by the Jury on the first cyout, and on the ing ny watch. I remember no istand save ledge informed that it had come thick, 1

taken place between the "CMS.N. Con of Cliff Island, S. 493 Wenuer Hasting, bound North, and a Commander Haygarth: I was serving as reported to me that s large hote was under 18 1 cables. At low water springs, allow second count a verdict of guilty by 6 to one,

the one. I have mentioned Kosima. So informed the Captain between one and two far as I remember there was land 'olock that the weather had become thick. Sentence deferred,

a Lieutenant on board the Iron Ducks on the boiler and column of water rusting in ing for a rise of 13 feet, there would aze I did not report to him its becoming thick July 50. I was not on deck at the time of as a think he could keep his fires in for four feet on this rook. From aberrations

told on the starboard "ham when

a large as his body. He also on deck, but

sight off again towards the end of the watch. It the ship striking. She struck about fre towards the end of the watch. We too

fall low by flye fest in the afternoon as meentence was in both cases deferred by ecos-bearings from two different parts of it had been before, at four o'clock we could the weather was very hazy, if there: tes. I told him to do what he could it did in the morning. On the 14th respective destinations.

kot so thick at the end of the watch as o'clock. I came on deck at half-part four more then a quarter of an hour or twenty talten by Passage Island, the tide did not ally a fog; day was broaking. 1 put his pumps on and so forth. At the November, in the afternoon, being a day same time the chief officer reported to me and a half before fall moon, there would be saw land right phead and it appeared to me there were three or four feet of water in the 10 to be a smile and a half off. The f

The fog was

The second case that was before the Jury

To Comdr. James -Iu terlog the rates to-day was that of Feng a Tai, who was are in my handwriting, the courses charged, first, with unlawfully, by frandi not the weather is not. And this entry

A19.45 altered the course to N, by W.

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Chan Aran and Yan Afa, wera bath found guilty of larceny by the Jury; but

the Chief Justice,

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the (aland of Kosinds.. I do not remember to the beat of my recollection, ace novaral seeing you in any part of the watok takingles between the patches of mis scoat-bearings. I do not know who took staff commander did not, I think, commu THE RECENT GROUNDING OF THE the cross bearings in the log. I do not re- nirate with me during the middle watch well down on the land, and no outline of after hold, and that the water was rising 10 feet on the rook at the time the Douglas

member seeing you and Capt. Cleveland ou

To Captain ClevelandThe quarter

er the land, could be seen, I was told that

I rapidly. immediately

ordered all boats to truck. From observations of the set of the the bridge during the first watch, the master was stationed at the standard oom and had been in sight only a very short be cleared for lowering, and, finding the tides should outsider that a vessel weering patent log was set abolit ten polock. I am pass to ensure the ship being stored cor time when went on deck. Mr Clark was ship rapidly sinking, steered for the course through this channel would be set to Southward. The assumed position of the Dearest ahol and beached the ship to east- not certain who made these entries in the rectly. When I reported to yoa that, it the officer on the watch,

The Staff Co

Com A court martial was opened to-day on log which I have said are not mine, hat I was misty in patobes I received orders from mander was not on deck at that time ward of the One Font Rook. I omitted to rook on which the Douglas struck, was board the Victor Emanual, to enquire into think Lieut. Denrey

Bitte that as soon as I found out that the found to be three quarters of a cable to the you to preserve the same courts and speed, asked the officer on watch if the Staff Com

·eastward of the rock found,

which is a went ahead charges made against Captain Cleveland, Gorge Wiliam Exlinton, navigating to use the steam whistle if

had been called. Henaid-Yes. 1 was not Teesel had passed over the rook, D90256ary, and

rock, and hitherto unmarked on pinnacle Staff Commander James, and Li utonant Lient.: I have worked the ship's course as to carry out the instructions.

aware whether the captain had been called or again. At the time of our grounding there the charts. Clarke that they did, on July 30th, negli-directed by the Court. I am satisfied that the geully or by default, strand Her Majesty's result is accurate. The place I now 'mark waster may have come to me from, you kouts. It was not altered. The course mediately foisted signals of distress and the best of iny ability on the line that is given

To Commander JamesThe quarter. had been on deak. The speed was about six was a stommer in sight, which proved to ba

Mr Ashton further stated At the time of a Chinese gunboat, I think, No. 10. I im the accident. I was steering my ship to the N, W. W.

# ship Tron Duke on the roof off the Jaland is where the thip ought to have been king for the cast of the deep sus lead.attered about six points to port when the tog intention of suming to our assistance; when on the chart, and ales according to the

westerly. The course was of Okisera. The Coars was composed of

I received, I forgot how, an offer to take altered by dead reckoning, when she took Commedure Smith, president, Captain the ground. The cart produced is, deep ses soundings and carried it out. I lifted and land was sighted. It was altered

Instructions issued by the Admiralty for Gaming of the Curacao, Captain Lait of believe, the latest and largest issued by did not look on the shall, under the chart by the order of the officer on the watch. 1 within about two miles of us, she suddenly guidance when using that channel fiskiss the Comsa, Capt. Most of the Modests, the Admiralty. All the hydrographical room table, where the sharts are always was on deck at that time: The balm was put altered her helt, and steered away from us Sea Directory, Vol. 3, Notice. No. 0, for and Commander Grove of the Lg. Mr notices in the case appears to have been kept. I looked for the charts of the Puzzl aver and a metags sent to the Captain at through the native channel by Red Yit. at East Coast of Chian, dated 8th Jane, 1878), Wright, the Commodore's Secretary, acted sad. I know nothing beside the sailing lands in the drawer and in the chart the same time. There was about half an this time I thought she was merely going and as Judge Advocate.

room generally. I did not foal on the shelf hour between the time the course was alter through the channel and coming to our and that, although I have not used this In the absence of a prosecutor the Court

ed and the time the vessel struck, I re-assistance by the way of Westward of Cliathannel frequently myself, I know that other agreed at the request of the Judge Avocate termination I bave done I have made no shere because the light blinds one. It has watch, she land boing so close and a navi- boats

To the President-In coming to the de- for the chart. I have generally found she

obart in the drawer. 1

did not stay lang commended Mr Clark, the officef of the Island, but, instead of doing that, she kept steamers have been in the habit of ring it out of the way altogether. I lowered my for years. I therefore had every reason to *work up the ship's reckoning in accordanceovance for the current for or against been my custom to send for yon siways geting officer not being on deck, to turn the boats about two hours after we struck believe that the channel was a safe one.

From the time of leaving Hakodate till 4.45 p.m., the position of the ship asser- when land has bueu seen, but not necesati ship off the esurse and immediately to send having waited in hope of placing my passen Though my lead was not going at the time, called and examined by the Judge Ad- the log. I have simply gone by the log-

Vibo-Admiral Robert Coote, was first tained by the cross-bearings are givan in JDocsure it came ou thick. I have sent for the Captain. The Osptald came on deck gera og board the Chinese steamer, I landed have saved my vessel, as owing to the in

or you before, in thick and forgy weather. almost immediately after the ship had been my passengers on Passage Island, sending evenness of the bottom, no sounding could Tomis as follows

This was steadied, The stall commander came on 5 women and children first.

have given me any warning on to the exis- Ware you on board your flag-ship at the I refer to the cross bearings in the log.

deck I think before the ship was steadied, obliged to do, an I knew there was a rise tence of an auknown pinnacle work in the tims of her being stranded on the 30th don't know if they correspond with the

The

look out bad made no report to the sad fall of some 23 feet of water, and that July! You

pasion of the ship ascertained by dead

To Lieutenant Olark:-You relieved memoir of the watch me to the land being all probability my ship would be covered centre of the channel, about ten minutes or a quarter past f reckoning. I did not think it nea stary to

J. W. W. Webb: I was midshipman on sighted, so far as I beard, No report was

at high water..

I had six boats capable of Age at Hakodatel-At 2 o'clock in the be the true position of the slip.

the enquire into that sa the oros-bearing mast nty during the middle watch on July 50. wads when I was on desk. The lesiemen acoviazidating about 100 people, and landed sfiernoon of the 29th July,

I was stationed on the quartor deck. The were in the ed I do not know whey ordinary speeil of eight knots. i should Douglas, with a mean: draught of 14 feet, chains at the time. I heard the passengers in two trips, was going at In the opinion of this Court the steamship When did you expect to round the T. Commander James: am slightly course was North by West West, spoed & no soundings Boutier end of the Okiters Isisid it acquainted with the State-of-Tauga koots, to tail. The course was not altered thier eros beatings were aware of any atizing to beaching. I was on the bridge with 60 passengers on hard, struck but en

were taken

say ave hautes elapsed from time of white on her passage from, Amay to Foschow, about six o'clock on the following morning.

GEL Hopkins I have worked up the luring the watch nor was

ՃԱԼ To the Court I apsed, I aut

at. the Did you expect to see land before you ship's reckoning as directed by the Court, not curtain that the leads were constant soundings being taken between the time I

time, and had been so for three unknown pinanale rook between Passage rounded

quarters of an hour before; the second Island and North Tit Rocks at the Westeru The leadamen were in Plato state to the Goure generally the sat: salated onto the coupe orked in

I am accuracy of the re-feed

in the went on deok

leok and the time she struck. chaine.

officer was with me us offer of the watch, entrance of Haitan Straits, there being about Deep

were ob: oundings were

There were no trials with the deep sea lead. directions you ostes:1 to be given concern- where the ship ought to bare been by her tained 3 puan at 2 o'clock 118. fathoms, was daylight when the ship strank. I The lead was not going at the time the vessel, eleven feet of water on the skid rock, it the

struck. I was steering

E. by

(true) time, 4 fathoms being marked on the NN. ing the navigation of the fron Druk dead reckoning from the time she left and no bottom. The speed was at redug | am not Wate, whether the masthead being N.E, br. E: 4 E. by standard comblaine var attach to the master of the Dark Debentures, 8 p.č. prema..

sed maps. In explanation I my by Hakodadi. The chart is the largest and seen during the watch. Between 12 and 1

chart. The Court la of opinion that no Bod ed to obtain soundings." Land was not were up. The spoed van not slackened up with White Island right ahead, supposing that I was informed of, the course she a newest shark leated by the Admiralty is night was osira and clear afterwards left the deck. I am not aware what order myself to be on the line as given by the Douglas, his ufficere, ot vrew, illa vessel being Ohirese Imperial Loan sk1876) nominale till after the vessel was steadied. I thou Was going to

the beat of my knowledge. All the hydro there was a thick mist. I By the Court Did you approve

und know on the ORSE NATO aff contmander of the Bot see the were given after the ship was steadied art,On that course, there was one point only 300 fout out from: the middle of the?] gouras given - kéquie cod în lo

of one save in the

Captało po deck W.N.W. The spend was not slackened esiterly deviation. I have used that passaga shantel as marked on the charts. The Do you recollect it that course was altered before the ship alsuot sailing rules. I have made nu allowance during the watch. I communicated with then. No sonndings of any sart were given wins before, but unrer at low water, but I Court therefore returns to Samuel Ashton

by the leadston before the ship struck, so know our own and other ateamers have been and his officers their certificates for current for or against. The difference the Captain abortly after one o'clock.. at the between my work and the ship's work is eo was ment with a message to the Captait far as I heard. No

of the promptitude showa in Mr W. G. Parker, scound offer having of I thought it the Do you recollent at what time that occur chart About half a mile.

come on thick. He said to ostry pile the safest ajurse to purone to alter the pontas been duly sworn, stated-On Sunday, 14th necessary measures for the saving of life red 1 – iborils, before 5 o'gical s

wiltten instructions, to keep the same speed until either the navigating officer or November, it was my watch frouz 12 to 4 in and property. WAR ABY TESKOR given for altering it at the rat watch on board the Iron Duke on

I was quarter master of and COUIR, and if it pame on very thick to the Caplain came on deck. I am not harge (on the bridge), and at 2.46 pm, the Anchorage Fooohow, this 14th day of the afternoon. The captain was on desk in Dated at H.M.'s Tien-Consulatej Tagoda that tímo |--I was told by Captain Clevo-

dengan aware that any alteration we made land sist laud been won on the starbased 29th July last. The bourse was W. by N.

either in the speed of the ship or in barship struck an unknown auuken rook, and Desember, 1880 To the Court-I personally had no idea

(Signed) RW. MANSFIELD, bow, and canonving that that land w&N. The course was altered at 0.56.ts N.

H.B.M. Vice-Consul Pagoda Anchorage, the douth polat of Okisgra he dirented Y.-W. I received the order from the where the ship wat I had taken no sights did not advise that speed should passed over it. The ship's hond when he struck was NE. by E. E. The ship at be slackoned, GO

Inime the time was going, eight knots.

President the ships head to be pointed West by officer of the watch, Liant, Dearey. The and had not seen the chart. The officer of

(Signed) Reg. C. FROTHERO North. I unfortunately turned out not speed of the ship was six knots. It was of the watch took no sights. The sture were To Captain Clevelani-After advising diately the ship struck the toptain gave to be the Bouth, and of Okisera. A dense altered; we haw land between 3 and 10 obscured, when the mist came on. Bo the offer of the watah to put the helm orders to atop the engines, and ordered me

Lieutenant HIM.S. Mappin; fog had come on quite chouring the land look. I cannot, say whether cross busreon 12 and 1 they were not obscured. I do and send for the Captain he appeared to take a bearing of. One Foot Book, which

(Signed) WELLIE, and the Kalp unfortunately grounded, ings were taken by any offer. I did not had no night orders from the navigating to deliberate some minutes. I should my I was bearing North, by stearing compass, and

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