... colonial rate of postage to her Majesty's ships serving on foreign stations, a letter addressed to the Postmaster-General has elicited the following reply:— Letters sent from this country to her Majesty's ships in any part of the world are now prepayable ...

... TWO BRITISH SHIPS LOST. The English ship Four Winds from Iquiqua tvith nitrate, was stranded and sank on Monday night in a heavy south-west gale at Heligoland. The crew and twenty-three persons were saved. The four-masted ship Falls of Foyer, from Junin ...

... One of the passengers, as the boat was leaving the sinking ship, was asked to throw his daughter into the boat. He, however, hesitated, and lost his chance. Both of them were drowned. The ship s doctor, who was t only rescued after a terrible experience ...

... kindly treated on board the Netley Abbey, have lost the whole of their clothes and effects, but have been assisted by the local agent of -the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society at Blyth. Her Majesty's ship Blake has arrived at Plymouth from Sheerness ...

... SHIPPING DISASTERS. The loss of life in the fishing trade at Grimsby in December has reached an appalling total. The trawl smack Active, owned by Messrs. Moss, is formally given up as lost, with all hands, including a workhouse appren- tice from Tynemouth ...

... pemtions ag-iinst the enemy. It was there- fore necessary to select Soudanese officers, crews, and soldiers from the four ships, and to transfer them to the two steamers ffcing to Khartoum. This was the chief reason for the delay ou the 23rd. 3rd. 1 knew ...

... Chen Yuen in the Yalu engagement during the Chino-Japanese war, has committed suicide in New York. The diamond tiara which was lost in the fire at Earl de la Warr's house has, says the Figaro, been found. It was in the butler's room in the basement, and ...

... in the Regis- ter. Excluding foreign ships and collision cases, 220 wrecks and casualties happened to nearly new ships, and 325 to ships from 3 to 7 years of age. Then there are wrecks and casualties to 508 ships from 7 to 14 years old, and to 811 from ...

... The British ship Dominion, 2,500 tons, from Honolulu to Victoria, British Columbia, is believed to be lost with all hands. BAKINGS POWDERS ...

... of Banff, and the Bremen steam- ship George. The cause of the collision is un- explained, as the night was clear and the vessels plainly discernible. The sailing-ship, however, struck the steamer heavily amid- ships, tearing open the side of the vessel ...

... Poor Richard's Almanac tells how a horse was lost because he cast a shoe, and the shoe was lost for want of a nail. Just for the want of the very least consideration nearly two days of a magnificent ship, her crew and passengers were thrown away by a ...

... men drowned are Richard Marr, shipped at Cardiff, and Jose, an Italian, shipped at Antwerp. Both were firemen. A fnrther telegram to the owners says that the Vulcan sank immediately after the collision, and that the crew lost everything. ...