Show A kiriti I admirals power A british admiral aa iral exercised a peculiar privilege recently affording thereby one illustration to the question often presented to the curious as to what might happen should the senior officer of a ship or fleet choose when eight bells or sun sunset seV is reported to him to withhold his mate it so please by officially delaying sunset for over an hour it was during the trial of admiral fairfax several weeks ago by the admiralty regulations court mar bials may mav mot bot ai bt it a after ter ct ahe fr trial was aleo almost st aver over n suu suns sei etwas as reported on this day and the ad admiral admirel mirul being anxious to conclude the matter officially put the sun back or ordered that it stand still in consequence all the ships in devenport kept their ensigns flying until after it ww was quite dark |