Berrer be sure than sorry " is an old nautical maxim, and one that ahipmas. ters cannot afford to forget. If it had been more carefully impressed on Captain Hankingon's mind, the Indo. China Steam Navigation Company would not be Inmenting the loss of thole steamer, the Seewo, nor would the names of seven Chinese, including the head compradore of the vessel, be udded {to the long roll of lives lost. in foreign steamers on the Chinese coast, The minutes of the Naval Court of Enquiry, which we publish this morning, show very dently how this easily preventible accident occurred. Ann sen ao dotted with rocks and islands aa the stretch between Shanghai and Hongkong, it is not to be wondered at (hat outside steamers and canal-tiadere, which only visit these waters two or three times a sear, should, like the Breconshire recently, sometimes come to grief; but
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