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... HEAVY CASUALTIES. LORD METHUEN WOUNDED AND A BE PRISONER. Hope that the Boer war is fast drawing to a close no et oner springs than some fiesh disaster to British troops sweeps itunt of existeoce again, and the country is called upon to brace itself anew ...
... the total of the previous year 720. The number of ships is in excess of the casualties reported, because in cases of collision two or more ships are, course, involved in one casualty. Thus 701 were collisions, and 2,301 were wrecks and oasnaltiee other than ...
... CABOIFF. Wreck of the Pari*.” The group of rocks known as the Mana- . clea, on the Cornish coast, was the scene of another shipping disaster early Sunday morning. The fine American liner Paris, bound for New York, got oat of her coarse, through some cause ...
... foremast. Everything on deck, however, was made secure, and no casualty occurred. At Liverpool the gale was felt less severely owing the direction of the wind, and no accidents to shipping aro reported on Friday morning. ...
... tigurefl will show my ship- owning colleagues that they exaggerate the cost to themselves of the liability for loss of life. During the 12 months only 409 masters and seamen out of a total of 168,000 employed were drowned by wreck or casualty. Assuming the ...
... Liverpool Thursday morning, when many of the thoroughfares were bestrewn with broken chimney pots and bricks, casualties were reported to local shipping. cocoa.—OaanrnL Oonroamo.— By tbornngh knowledge of the Batumi laws wUch gorern the operations ol digestion ...
... to the squadron off Santiago. It has been ascertained that Admiral Sampson has joined Commodore Schley with nearly all his ships, so that the American naval strength at Santiago is now overwhelming. There has been no further bombardment of Santiago, but ...
... life and propery at s.a. Of | the 606 total wrecks, 74 arose from defects in the ships | or equipments, such as in.zgcr!u:t charts or compasses, | &c., and 45 of these 74 ships are stated to have becn actually unseaworthy. Now this ought nut to be per- | ...
... heard at short intervals, it was at one time feared that the burning alcohol might flow down into tho port and endanger the shipping, and two vessels which were in close proximity to the conflagration were removed. Great excitement also caused by the collapse ...
... medium quality Californian white has been taken for Havre at 925. per qr. free on board, and No. 2 red American has been shipped for Antwerp, the ready transit making our markets more eligible than those more distant. ‘There are still indications of rain ...
... enemy, but on account of losses sustained namely, seven European officers wounded, one dangerously, and also ninety other casualties—was unable to advance. Returned to Kwisa. Position of affairs as follows. No news from Kumasi. Hall at Esumoja and Bekwai ...
... The Secretary of the Admiralty reports the fol- lowing casualties have been reported as having taken place at Taku, 17th Jane :—Killed William Theodore Bing, ordinary seaman, of Her Majesty's ship Barfleur, O.N. 188203. Wounded: (British) Assistant Paymaster ...