SINKING OF A PILOT-boaT, The pilot-boat No. 2, partly owned by Mr. J.D. C. Arthur, licensed pilot, was run into nutes 10 one, on Wednes-ay morning, whilst at anchor inside of the Bell Buoy (entrance ta the South Channel).
Young of the Japanese mail steamer Mure from Japan, desiring a lot, was proceeding cautiously towards the boat, which at the time was carrying the Company's private signal lights, and was keeping the same bearing a point or more on his starboard bow. The night, although calm and clear, was very dark and colourless, the horizon being without definement, thus making an accurate estimation ' of distance impossible. The ight-vessel was bearing W. by S.
og., and the Saikio Maru was, when m ing for the pilot-boat, steering a W.N.W. course, her commander calculating that the tide was running west and that the boat was over'a quarter of a mile distant and would be riding nearly end on, to his course, whereas she was lying right athwart, the tide setting S.W. at the rate
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