... 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 ...

... SHIP AND CREW LOST. A schooner went ashore on the Kentish Knock Sands on Sunday night. The Margate lifeboat proceeded to the sands. The vessel, however, sank, and the crew were last seen, according to Lloyd's, in the rigging. The wind was blowing bard ...

... 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 ...

... GOVERNMENT CUTTER LOST. Information to band states that the fisheiy protection duty cutter Hind, which went ashore on the Ship wash Sands in a thick haze on Tues- day morning, is expected to become a total wreck. The gunboat Onyx has visited the scene ...

... 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. A WILSON LINER ASHORE. The Wilson liner Angelo, which carries the Norwegian mails between Hull and Christiauia, went ashore on Sunday night on the Holderness coast, and still remains fast. She went on about an hour after high water ...

... 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 ...

... SHIPS THAT MET IN THE FOG. A thick fog which prevailed at sea in the early hours of Saturday morning was responsible for two collisions. Belfast Lough, the scene of many a mishap re- cently, witnessed the more serious accident. The Fleetwood and Belfast ...

... 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 ...