The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-06-15 00:00:00

DEATH BY DROWNING.

.A. i.
liar, ,-.l33entabio accident happened on Sunday even-
t:, Mr. Edward Spender, founder and chief pro-
-40 etor of the Western Morning News, and his two
4:42. They walked that evening to Whitsand Bay,
liles from Plymouth, and bathed on the sandy
41. When they were still in water only
vive lit 4ft, deep a wave broke over them, and they
tt te not afterwards to be seen. A brother-in-law
4
cowl'. Spender, a surgeon, was in the water also, but
thiV render no help. The coastguardmen believe
the wave shifted the loose sand on which Mr.
b„ ,Ilder and his sons stood, and drew them into an
1h
7ereurrent. They could all swim. Mr. Spender re-
at Westbourneterrace, Paddington, and was at
Mouth on a brief visit. The Western Morning News
„._l'aof the deceased :—"His activity in connexion with
'llaalisna did not wholly absorb his literary energies;
,as a constant contributor to the Quarterly and
,7 reviews, and he also wrote a volume descriptive
'a iourneyings in Norway, for he was a frequent
/ell. in Europe. He was a man whom to know
as to esteem and love, and even outside the literary
°I:ld his loss will be deplored by very many in the
„.. .''roPolis and elsewhere with whom he was accus-
pe4acl to co-operate, generously and actively, in works
Practical philanthropy." -

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I.°lll further particulars given, it appears that
ka,sPot at which the disaster occurred—Tregan-
at #ll " or Trewenack, not far from the Luggers' Cave,
e Rame Head end of Whitsand Bay—ls described
omeculiarly perilous, owing to the shifting character
lost Bands. More than one life had previously been
ttere within the last twenty years. The time was
Out six o'clock, the second hour of flood time, and it
thfilloosed, on a comparison of the incidents, that Mr.
cler and his sons were not carried out by the wave,
lii;‘',Ware knocked backwards, and so far buried as to be
.eltrazyle to regain the surface by the rush of loose sand
4:4:1163 down by the backwash of the wave. The
" were not recovered.

Tht,
- --ombay public are suffering at present, as they
thy,'ee had to suffer for three hot seasons in succession, from
L
,fam
We.
g
N' hgland is not alone in her anxiety to enlighten.
late,l,and Japan concerning the mysteries of modern war-
Or learn from Germany of a young Japanese noble-
'4ll4 Prince Bakal, who, since November last, has been
qtio`u,,g as lieutenant in the second regiment of Grenadier
the .3,1, at Berlin. The Prince remains in Berlin until after
ut_aw.;-‘11....r0n manceuvres, when he takes his departure for
401%3 -rte has learnt much in the short time he has been
effer,,,g,r.ank in the German army, every facility having been
nun to study and get a thorough insight into the
14r "x system of what may claim to be the firstriarmy—so
tollr .?rganisation goes—in the world. In addition to this,
Tosai:!_aPenese naval officers, viz., Captains Yanigi and
grauiT.l end Lieutenants Kourokawa and Isoir, have been
4iive Permission to serve on board German ironclads, and
varto,!rrived at Kiel, where they have been appointed to
erithn ships in the squadron which was about to start on a
"--Puntehaii Review.