The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-02-23 00:00:00

REWARD FOR BRAVERY,

The Board of Trade have awarded their silver
medal for humanity in saying life at sea to Captain
William Thomson, master of the ship Medea, of
Greenock, in recognition of his humane and praise.
worthy services to the shipwrecked crew of the barque
Lauderdale, of Liverpool, whom he rescued at sea on
the 28th January. The Lauderdale had encountered
the full force of a hurricane, which had completely
wrecked her, and was in a sinking condition when the
Medea hove in sight. Notwithstanding the heavy
weather which was prevailing, a boat was launched
from the Medea with the view of taking off the ship-
wrecked crew, but when within 150 yards from the
Lauderdale the boat was capsized by a heavy sea,
and its crew, consisting of the chief mate, Mr. Reuben
Jeffery, and four hands, were all drowned. The
Medea then stood by the wreck until the next morn-
ing, when the weather having moderated, the crew of
the Lauderdale abandoned their vessel and proceeded
in their own boat to the Medea.

A Paris telegram states that a German gambler has
committed suicide at Monte Carlo ; and at Nice
another loser at Monte Carlo has attempted to drown
himself from the bathing establishment, but was
rescued.

We (Daily News) understand that the Royal Com.
mission to inquire into the whole question of the
dwellings of the poor will include the Prince of Wales,
Cardinal Manning, Mr. Broadhurst, Mr. Lyulph
Stanley, and Mr. Jesse Collings. Lord Salisbury has
been invited to act as a Commissioner. The Queen
has, we believe, given her consent that the Prince of
Wales should serve on the Commission. Sir Charles
Dilke will preside over the inquiry.

Sir Saul- Samuel, -Agent•General for
New South Wales, has been informed by telegraph of
the arrival in Sydney of the ship Stirlingshire, which
sailed from Glasgow with emigrants in December
last, and of the steamship Lusitania, which sailed from
Plymouth with emigrants in December last.
The total number of beasts entered for consumption
at the Metropolitan Cattle Market for the week ending
Saturday last was 3070 head; the corresponding week
of 1883, 2800; 1882, 3130; 1881, 310; 1880, 3480;
1879, 4370; 1878, 3380; 1877, 3220; 1876, 4580; and
1875, 3860.

The Italian brig Luigi, of Geneva, was towed into
Queenstown on Monday in charge of a prize crew.
The Luigi left Cardiff on the sth inst. with a cargo of
coals for Buenos Ayres, and last Sunday was found
derelict ninety miles south of Cork Harbour by the
Eurydice, from Liverpool for St. John's. The chief
officer and a crew from the latter were placed on board
to work the vessel into port. The masts were standing,
but all the yards and sails of the mainmast had been
carried away and the canvas of the foremast nearly
gone. Nothinz is known of th- crew.

.nree of the four men who were supposed to have
murcierc.,d Jeremiah Murphy, farmer, at Inehigella,
near Cork, have been discharged for want of evidence.
The fourth prisoner was remanded.

'The Committee formed two years ago for the pure
pose of promoting the restoration of Cetewayo have
decided that the Government should be urged to main.
tam n the independence of 'Zulu territory.
Par! Oafrnr, in presiding over a large meeting held
in the Town Hall, Bournemouth, in connection with
the local branch of the Young Men's Christian Also.
eiation, advocated the establishment of district gym-
nasiums, so that young men who were employed in
sedentary occupations during the daytime might have
wholesome and health•giving exordia without going
far for it.