The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1889-08-24 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ROT LAKE NOTES. Tbe Regatta Committee veered • great swiss on Saturday. It fortunately happened that the day alumni was the finest we have bad for some time, which with the exoellent_procramme of sport, induoed tboisands to " The Railway Company was particularly truing an hour arriving and btongdispatch• • .411 think that this extra traffic ".h test hitch or accident.  viiit au. I soitive,three I ed. It is very  • proaari—ng to n without II  The returns of passengers show that 01010 upon 3,C00 in excess of ordinary Saturdays travelled over the line, which fact must show the management the advantage of supporting a holiday of the sort, both pecuniarily and otherwise. The very able description of the Regatta which we were favoared with in Wednesday's News relieves : me of the necessity of attempting a report. But this I may say, all differences 11:1 the way of protests are satisfactorily arranged ,and the whole affair, which at the early part of the summer, when arrangements were being made to carry it out, received such little support that serious thoughts were entertained of breaking it up and distri. bating the balance of money in charity, has proved the most successful of the three Regettas held, pleasing competitors, spectators,and inhabitants alike.  The gale which on Tuesday morning burst over the coast like a thunderclap was felt by the Hoylake fishing boats,vvhich had proceeded to sealbut a few hours before, with great severity. Vivid descriptions are given by the men, of the awful suddenness with which the tempest came down upon them. All unconscious of the approaching gale, they had their nets out and all sail set when in far less time that the description takes the squall strnck them, throwing them almost on their beam ends. The tide, which was about three home ebb, rendered it impossible except for those of the smaller craft who were nearest shore to return to the lake, which a few of them were saccesstul in doing, bat the ! greater number had to run before its fury to the Mersey, one or two of them with loss of sails, butithe remainder scathless. The casualties were few, considering the violence and suddenness of the storm, but anxious fears were entertained during the day for the safety of the Hoylake Yachts, which bad proceeded to Rhyl Regatta the day before, and intended to return by Tuesday morning's tide. And when a telegram came to the Hoylake Signal Station from Voel Rant saying a boat had hen cast up on the beach close to Prestatyn and giving a description which exactly tallied with the "Madcap" there were many grave faces and anxious doubts as to the , safety of her crew, who belong to the Island club. Subsequent enquiries proved it was not her, and tint the other boats as well as her were in places of safety at Llanechermor, Fforyd, and Hilbre. The fishing boat Ruby (captain George Evans) came into the Lake on Thursday evening last with the loss of one of her crew. The boat was fishing off the Lancashire coast at nine o'clock in the morning of the day of accident, when a poor young fellow, whose name was Benjamin Armitage, owing to the roll of the vessel slipped and fell overboard with his oilskins and sea boots on and was never seen afterwards. The weight of his clothing sunk him at once.l The loss will be a great shock to his widowed mother, who has lost her children one by one, the cruel see claiming two of them until she is almost bereft, and this last one gone being her only  support. The Gas Company have issued notices of their intention to reduce the price of their gas 10 per cent., equal to s reduction of 6d. per thousand, it will then stand at 4s. 6d. The redaction will compensate the ratepayers for the additional cost of having five new street lamps, and having the lamps lighted an extra hour. It is very short sighted policy on the part of our Guardians not to do their utmost to encourage visitors to come, and to please them and satisfy them when they are here. The cost of a few extra hours gas light is not felt when borne by the community, and who, jam sure, would not object to any reasonable outlay when they know it brings grist to the mill, and if their ambition to make the place a respectable sea side resort is thwarted by their representatives on the Iloard of Guardians, the best thing the ratepayers can do is to get representatives of more liberal views and more in harmony with their own. The inquest on the body of Davies, who committed suicide in Grove-road last week, was held on Saturday last, before the Deputy-Coroner, and restilted in a verdict of temporary insanity. I hear a great many complaints of the way in which Coroner,s juries are selected in Hoylake, and I would just suggest that it is quite possible to summon 'twelve good men and true" without tearing shopkeepers away from their places of business on a Saturday afternoon.