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stranded was† chain on the side towards the shore and six fathoms on the other side, and the bottom was usbdy. The steamet: came off horsdif at 9.30 the following day, after

POUNDED EN "HONOUR. OSAKA MARINE COURT OF INQUIRY,"

about 2,000 tors of cargo had been discharged. No doubt you have seen in the such papers by slavederas from Kobe,. The steamer was ip, announcements as this concerning : some The Japan Chronicle, of the 29th ulti, sayaz- Judgment was given in this case on the 151kway damaged. When she was subsequent medicine or other If, on trial, you write that lost. On the 8th instant a Marine Court of Iny docked at Liverpool, no injury was found. this medicine has done you no good we wil quity was held at Osaka to examine Captain This I learned from the owners of the steamer refund your money.Now, we have never had Frederick Devenish,' a' licensed Jaland Sea

Alter i fow more questions el a similar mason to speak in that way concerning the pilot, in connection with the stranding of the the Court asked if the respondent had remedy named in this article. In a tride British steamer Telemazius in Akashi Channel anything to say In reply be asked that the extending throughout the world, nobody has in July last, whon Capizin Devenish piloted

fact he had now served as pilot for this com- ever complained that our medicine has failed, the vessel. The Court consisted of Captain pany's steamers for fifteen years be taken into or asked for the retum of his money. The Fujino, a Government Marien Sazveyor, pre-

pali aj dit laager public never grumbles at honestly and skillfully riding, and Captains Kadoya and Taude, Gov

Infaddressing the Court, Mr. Tanaka, Rijik made bread, or at a medicine which really and erament Surveyors, sitting as associate exs, said that had the Telemachus been a little actually does what it was made to do. The aminers. Mr. Tanaka, Hij, conducted the more careful, the collision could have been foundations of t ix.quity

avoided, whatever way the fishing, boats might have acted. Briefy the Telemackus stranded, at she attempted to pass the fishing boats, He thought the "Telemachus, musi biva blown the whistle, though the fishing boats did not hear it. The fitting-boats were occupied in their speed must have been slow. Had the bargaining fish, so that when they rowed off Telemachus reduced speed a little earlier, the collision could have been averted. Though no damage was dons to Telemackus in conan guenca of the accident, yet it was not proper for a pilot in navigating a steamer of over 7,000 cons to approach the shore. The respondent should be reprimanded, as his action was liable to clause of Article'ty of the Pilot Law. This concluded the proceedings.

The Telemach, walist on her way from Moji to Kobe, under the pilotage of the res- pondent, on July 4th, came into collision with two fishing boats proceeding side by side in the Akashi Channel and stranded for a short time at the base of the Euk! light, Awajl, The action of the pilot in running the steamer on the shore was considered to fail. under, Clause

1 of Article 19 of the Pilot Law.

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are laid in sincerity and honour, the knowledge of which on the part of the people explains lis popularity and success. There is nothing to disguise or conceal. It was sot dreamed, out, or discovered by accident; it was studied out, sclence. It is palatable as honey and contains on the solid principles of applied medical

all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. This remedy is praised by all who have employed it in any of the diseases it is recommended to relieve and cure, and is effective from the first dose In Anemia, Scrofula, Nervous and General Debility, In- The decision of the Court was delivered on fluenza, La Grippe, and Throat and Lung Saturday, the 16th instant." Captain Devenish, Troubles, it is a specific. It is precisely what pilot of the Telemachus, was reprimanded so far it is said to be, and has won the confidence of as the collision we concerned, while as rethe public on that basis. You may resort to it

In answer to questions by the Court, Captain Devenish made the following deposition:-

The owners of the steamer Telemachus are the Ocean Steamship Company. The steamer is registered at Liverpool, England. She is a | vessel-of 7,441 tons gross. I joined the steamer at Mutsure Island as the pilot on July and, two days previous to the accidsat We left Mutore about 8 am. on July zad last for Moji, reaching the latter port at about 8. p.m.. the same day. We left Moji, at 4 .m. co the 3rd, paundgarded the stranding of the steamer he was ex-with a faith and hope that arise from the history the Otokoshima light at about 7 am. on the onerated from blame.

of what it has done for other. Dr. Thos, Hur- 4th, cama abreast of Okadosaki at about 8 ámi on the same day at a distance of about a mile, mad then bare a course 73 points north (mage tic course) for Akashi Channel, as I usually do, abreast the Shikauose buoy, as I was rosting below when the buoy was passed, I went down at about 8.30a.m. and came up again on the bridge at 10.30 am. By this time we were proceeding about six miles west of the Esaki light at a speed of twelve knots, ··

cannot tell at what distance the steamer came

1.

The Court finds that the respondent, in omit-Stucky says: "The continued use of it in my ting to signal when gotting out of the way of practice, convinces me that it is the mor the fishing-boats, was guilty of negligence ac palatable, least nauseating, and best prepara cording to the provisions of Article 28 of the top now on this market." One bottle proves Law for the Prevention of Collisions at Sea.its intrinsic value, "You cannot bị đ As regards the standing of the steamer, the appointed in it" Sold by chemists throughout respondent, in attempting to clear the fishing the world. boats while his vestel was desy year the shore, kept at full speed, which was a mistake. But no damage baving been caused to the steamer, bis action does not fall under Article 19 of the Pilot Law.

WESTERN MEDICINE IN CHINA.

"The late Emperor of China is said to have been parțial so European methods of medical treatment, and the report that he discarded his European physicians just before his death and rolled wholly in Chinese medical aid, is rev garded as suspicious by those who think that he met death. by violence. Wastara medicine is making much progress in some parts of

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HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPARTMENT;

IT is bereby notified that information lat

been received from the Military Authori ties that GUN PRACTIC will be carried out as under-

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From 4th to 23rd January, 1909

From Customs Fass and Chio Lan Chu over the area. Kaalung. Poak, Taler Cairn, Buffalo Hill, Razor Hill and High Junk Poak, at ranges up to 10,000 yardi, commencing at 10 AM, daily, and finishing at 4 P.M.

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If the weather is unfavourable on any of the sbove dates, practice will take place on the following day.

All ships, junks and other vessels are to keep clear of the ranges.

BASIL TAYLOR,

Commandet, R.N.,

Harbour Master; &c.

161

The Court: You said you had gone 'up on the bridge after your rest at 10,30 a.m. when the Esaki light was seen about six miles west. In that right? did not see a watch, so that I am not sure of the time. Then the Shikarose buoy had been passed and I did not see it. By the lima ] got up on the bridge the steamer was bearing a course E.N.E magnetic. By this course, I expected to pass the Esaki light at a distance of half a mile. There were 300 to 4to fishing-boat, accad, There were also some fishing boats on the posisjde (left) at the moment of the collision, but none on the star- board-side. When the collision' become im-China. 'Interesting light on the amount of minent the fishing boats were about a chains

that progress in Hongkong is thrown by a abead on the left, about 'point to port. There recent report of the Tuogs Wah Hospital, at were two boats. At the moment of the colli #bich all patients have the choice of whether sion the fishing boats were heading towards they will be treated by European or by Chinesa. the Etski light. The fishing boats were sight methods. The British Medical Journal remarks ed, I think, at about to soam, when I ordered that some of the preferences shown alc.interest- "port helm" in order to avert a possible colli-ing; thus, the majority of the patients suffering sion, and the helm was put hard aport. The from malarial feversesm last your to have chosen fishing boats then began to row, I kept the European treatment, whereas those suffering signal at "bard apori.* but the steamer came from dysentery' expressed the opposite pre- into collision and one of the fishing boats was ference. So, too, did the patients sufrat LI

from beri-beri, diseases of the respiratory system, of the digestive system, and from local injuries. In the other classes of diseases the balance was usually a little in favour of Euro- penú practices. The net result was that of 3354 patients, 1,711 chose European, and 1,043 Chinese treatment. This, as compared with

centage preferring Western medicine. the previous year, is a slight growth of the par- As re. gards mortality, the male, as might have been. expected, is greatly in favour of the atter; thus, of 1,714 patients treated by European methode only 330 died, whereas no fewer than 522 died out of the 1647 patients treated by Chinese methods.

overturned. The steamer then closed in toward the shore and I turned her bead to port, when she bare mortifit degrees east, and went aground. We blew the whistle thres or four times before the collision to wara the boats off. This was done when I ordered "port helm, "-first one blast and then three or four in succession.

The Court pointed out that nothing was mentioned in the reports made by the respon dent and the fishing-boats about the whistle 'signals,

·

Respondent 'replied: It was mentioned in the report made to the Kobo Marine Office, We blew the whistle. If it was not mentioned it was by mistake.

The Coun: The men on the fishing buat did not hear the report made by the Captain to the owners of the steamer.it was stated that 'whistle was blowo.. It was between 10.gr and 11, a.m. that the steamer stranded.

The Court pointed out that the time was entered in the log-book as 10.55 am, and respondent aid that might be correct,

The diseases in which European methods tem to have entirely won the day are those of the eye; for of the total of 79 ophthalmic in patients, only z chois Chinese methods. This is a result opon which Dr. G. Montague Hars ton, who is in charge of the ophthalmic in- department, and his three Chinese assistants, are entitled to congratulation. Trachoma most be exceedingly prevalent in the colony, for no less than 3 per cent, of all the new cases pre-

The Count; How long was it batween the collision with the fishing boats and the strand-senting themselves at the hospital, in the in-. ing of the steamer?-I think thirty seconds.

The time of the collision is stated at rogo a.m. in the log-book. How is that? The log

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The Court: There in a difference of five -minutes--This-has-an-important bearing on [at this case. You should consider well and say

patient and out-patient departments, ware sufferers, from this disease. It is satisfactory," therefore, to note that, a determined effort is now being made to deal with, this source of blindness among the native population. On the representations of Dr. G. M. Hanton of the extent to which trachoma is prevalent and of its terrible results, the Government has ap proved of the issue of regulations for the guid- acce of school-managers, and is taking all other measures which elsewhere have been found of value in dealing with this form of ophthalmia.

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which is right-your memory or the log-book cotry,.~I do not think it could bave been such a long time as five minutes.” I waż much wor- ried at the time, so that I cannot tell exactly, To further questions by the Court, respon dent replied:When we left Moji the steamer was drawing 231 feat both at the bow and the - stern." I think we were about a mile off the 4.

shore at the moment of the collision. Wa. wern going at a speed of twelve knote when we stranded. I thought we could pass tho fib- |ing-boats if we remained at fall speed. The steamer stranded at a 'point 8 degrees south by

8. west of the Esaki light sta distance of a quare ter of a mile. I should say that the constiuc tion of the Telemachus-is pacultar. Her belm | decide, nake Breda, does not answer, when the course is changed, A University student, Arnold Schmidt, ink. unless the engines are set at full, speed,“ 1.| ing leave ofa young lady just at the eut think the steamer stranded at a point more than ona chain distant from the Esaki light, The place whare the stismar, stranded is a rand-bank upt marked on the charts. Triszt chains distint from the Eraki ][ght; that the water is, about,

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