1897, is imperative, and a vessel is not justified -except in a case of paramount necessity, arising for instance from narrow channels or cross currents, for the safety of the vessel to go at a higher rate of speed-in proceeding at more than a moderate speed, although a slow speed obtained by stopping her engines from time to time may involve a loss of handiness and a danger of losing her position; and a vessel which it is alleged cannot go at a less speed than from nine to ten knots an hour, so as to be readily handled to avoid other vessels, is not, when proceeding at that speed in a dense fog, going at a moderate speed in the existing circumstances and conditions within the meaning of article 16. The Campania, (C.A.) 101.

-River Thames - By-law 47 Contributory Negligence.]—A steamship, which by a breach of one of the Thames By-laws (by-law 47) put another vessel in such a difficulty that the latter could not, except by the exercise of more than ordinary skill and care, avoid a collision,-Pronounced to blame for the collision which ensued. The Ovingdean Grange, 27.

-Both Ships to Blame-Consequential Damage to Third Vessel-Admiralty Rule as to Division of Damages-Joint Tort-feasors.]-Where, by the negligence of both, two ships come into collision, and the consequence of such collision is that one of the said ships afterwards comes into collision with and damages a third vessel, a moiety of the damages recovered by the owners of the third ship from the owners of the ship which actually did the damage may be recovered by the owners of such last-mentioned ship from the owners of the other wrongdoing ship, as part of the damages arising out of the original collision, notwithstanding the rule of law that there is no contribution between joint tortfeasors. The Frankland, 42.

-Practice Cross-Actions -High Court and County Court Actions-Transfer of County Court Action to High Court-Conduct of Consolidated Actions.]-Where cross-actions for collision have been commenced, the one in the High Court and the other in a County Court, and the County Court action is transferred to the High Court and consolidated with the High Court action, the conduct of the consolidated actions will be given to the plaintiffs in the action commenced in the High Court, unless it is clear that in point of time the County Court action was commenced first. The Mersey, 100.

Jurisdiction in Rem-Negligent Grounding of Ship upon Oyster Bed-Damage done to Oysters and Oyster Beds.]-The fact that the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, ss. 51 to 53, gives a property in oysters to the owners of oyster fisheries under the Act, and provides a remedy for damage done thereto against the person doing the damage, does not prevent the owners of the fishery from proceeding in rem against the owner of a ship which has negligently been allowed to take the ground upon their oyster beds, thereby doing damage both to the oystersand the oyster beds. The Swift, 47.

County Court-Payment into Court in Satisfaction-Acceptance of Amount-Amount Recovered Less than 21.-Taxation of Costs.]-In an Admiralty action in the County Court, where money is paid into Court unconditionally by the defendant and accepted by the plaintiff in satisfaction, the plaintiff is entitled to his costs under Order XXXIX.B, rule 50A of the County Court Rules and Orders, and to have them taxed under Column B of the County Court Scales of Costs under rule 80 of the same Order, unless the County Court Judge otherwise orders, even where the amount so recovered by him is less than 21. The Skudenaes, 64.

SOLICITOR.

Unqualified or Unauthorised Person-Entering Caveat-Ministerial Act.]-Any person may enter a caveat on behalf of a country solicitor, and in doing so it is not necessary for him to give a London address. Entering a caveat is a ministerial act only, and a lay person who does so on behalf of another is not liable to attachment as an unqualified person under section 26 of the Solicitors Act of 1860. Panton, In re, 95.

SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

See DIVORCE.

TOWAGE.-See SHIPPING.

VARIATION OF SETTLEMENTS. See DIVORCE.

WILL.

See PROBATE.

Further orrowing

or purpose of supply or year 900-1.

An Act to provide for raising a further
Supplemental Loan for the service of
the year ending the thirty-first day
of March nineteen hundred and one.
[15th December 1900.]

Most Gracious Sovereign,
WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal
subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament
assembled, towards raising the necessary sup-
plies granted to Your Majesty, have resolved
that sums not exceeding eleven million pounds
be raised in manner provided by this Act; and
do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty
that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by
the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spi-
ritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the au-
thority of the same, as follows:-

1.-(1.) In addition to the sums authorised to be raised by the War Loan Act, 1900, and by the Supplemental War Loan Act, 1900, any further sums required for raising the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March 13 & 64 Vict. nineteen hundred and one, or for paying off any security issued under this Act may be

13 & 64 Vict. 1.2.

. 61.

raised up to an amount not exceeding eleven million pounds, by all or any of the following further Supplemental War Loan or by means methods, namely, by means of the issue of a of the issue of Treasury Bills or Exchequer Bonds.

(2.) The further Supplemental War Loan under this Act shall be raised in the same manner as the Special War Loan under the War Loan Act, 1900, by the issue of War Stock or War Bonds as provided by that Act, and that Act shall apply with respect to the further Supplemental War Loan under this Act as it applies with respect to the Special War Loan.

(3.) The Treasury may fix the date from which dividends are to be payable on any War Stock or War Bonds issued for the purpose of the further Supplemental War Loan under this Act, and the date so fixed shall, as regards any War Stock or War Bonds so issued, be substituted in section four of the War Loan Act, 1900, for the sixth day of April nineteen hundred.

(4.) The principal of and the interest on any Exchequer Bonds issued under this Act shall be charged on and payable out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, or the growing produce thereof.

2. This Act may be cited as the Supple- Short title. mental War Loan (No. 2) Act, 1900.

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