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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1112, 27 April 1911, Page 5

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———* — • A NARROW ESCAPE.' A serious tragedy was narrowly averted on board tho new destroyer Nautilus in the Clyde. One of the crew entered the forecastle at 5.30 in tho morning to wake his comrades, and found ten of them lying unconscious in their bitnks. He raised an alarm, and the men were carried at once into the fresh air. Two 1 medical men were summoned by telephone, and after a while the men wero restored to consciousness, but they remained in an exhausted state for a considerable time. It was discovered that a coke-fed stove had been burning in the forecastle, whence there was no escape for the fumes, which had asphyxiated the men. The medical men _ declared that if the sailors had t remained in their bunks much longer they would have lost their lives. QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY. The annual report and accounts of Queen Anne's Bounty show that the funds held by tho governors in money and stock • have increased to upwards of £7,380,000. These funds represent capital' belonging to upwards of 6500 benefices. Tho amount of first fruits and tenths due in 1910 was £16,836 4s. 10d., and the surplus of general revenue was £10,171 16s. lid., making an aggregate amount of £27,008 is. 9d., available for th 6 year 1911. From the establishment of the' corporation tho benefactions and grants amount to tho aggregate of £8,283,521 145., but the total capital addition to the endowments of poor benefices resulting from the operations .of the corporation is largely in exccss of this amount, many investments' having from timo to time been made in the purchase for particular benefices of estates which have since increased in value. SUBMARINE IN COLLISION. The comment of merchant skippers on the official warnings to keep clear of submarines while manoeuvring, that they cannot keep clear of craft which are so often invisible, has had particular point given to it by a collision off Plymouth which might have had f-erious consequences. .The large cargo ketch the Rival was was making out to sea at the same time as the Fievoiiport submarine flotilla. The ketch held her course without reference to tho submarines, which, by tho rule of the road, being overtaking boats, should have kept clear. For some reason yet to be explained B 6 held on in a beelino in the vessel's wake, and struck Tier a heavy glancing blow in tho quarter below the water-line. Fortunately, the Rival had a fair gale homo, and in a little more than an hour was berthed in the Great Western dock with her covering board awash.

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