Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1889-03-02 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

FOR BRAVERY.  The Royal Humane Society bas announced the award of three silver medals for bravery in saving life from drowning, as well as several bronze medals and testimonials in other cases. One of the silver medals has been given to Sergeant Thomas Sutcliffe, of the Royal Irish Constabulary, for his efforts in saving 13 persons from the barque Etta, which during a gale on the morning of December 21 drifted on the rocks near Waterford. Sutcliffe climbed down the cliffs, and then crawled over some half submerged rocks, being once washed off, till he could catch a line thrown from the vessel. James Redmond, a farm labourer, who rendered assistance, has been voted a testimonial. The other silver medals have been awarded to Hubert Piers, fourth officer of the steamer Garth Castle, for the gallant rescue of a lunatic passenger who jumped into the Atlantic on the homeward voyage, and, by his skill as a swinumr, for some time evaded the efforts made to reach him ; and to Alexander Henderson, who rescued a young lady at Carnpbellford, Ontario, she having fallen into a mill-race, and been carried into a long covered-way. A bronze medal has been awarded to Percy Blow, aged eleven years, for saving a little boy who fell through the ice at Boultham, near Lincoln, on the Bth ult.; a second medal to John Farquharson, 29, a fisherman, for saving one of three men whose boat had sunk during a strong north.weet gale in Fraserburgh Bay on the 19th ult., and a third to an old mall named Thomas Selean, who, with all his clothes on, saved a little boy in Mevagissey Harbour, on the 16th ult. The other recipients of bronze medals are Albert Wilkinson, for saving a boy from the canal at Sheffield on the 13th ult.; William Godley, for saving a man at Southampton; James Woods, 23, pilot, for saving a mart at Dundalk Quay, on the 29th ult. ; Corporal Thomas Id• Kay, 11..11., for saving a sergeant of his corps, who with his son (drowned), was skating in the Phcenix-park. Dublin; and to Thomas Gregory, 33, for saving a boy from the canal at Wolverhampton on Dec. 21. Testimonials, recording the services rendered, have been voted to William Bassett, who rescued three boys from broken ice at Blurton, Stafford; to WilliaM Riley, who got a woman out of the canal, into which she had fallen in a fog, at Marple, on the 7th ult.; to Lieutenant Wolfe Murray, of the Agincourt, for saving a man who had fallen overboard at Almeira ; to Robert Coppinger for a rescue at Ballymore, Queenstown, on Christmas Day; to James Verdon, for preventing a suicide at Clapton on the 17th aft.; to Denis O'Dea, Irish Constabulary, for rescuing a little girl at Leap, Cork, on Dec. 7; to John Kerry, for getting two boys out of a frozen pond at Putney on the 7th ult.; and to Samuel Brereton for a similar rescue at Portarlington on the sth ult.  NEW ZEALAND offers a bounty of five cents each for the destruction of English sparrow. A OftQAT demonstration took place at Morriston, to sympathies with the workmen who have given notice be the proprietors of the Worcester and tipper Forest Tin Mate Works to cease work at the expiration of a month from February eth. On the reception of this notice, the proprietors gave notice that they would close the works at the expiration of a month, rather than be dictated to. Matters remain much the same, ad Morriston being the centre of the tin-plate industry, the dispute is causing great anxiety. The demonstration was attended by contingents from Monmouthshire, Meath, Aberavon, Aberdulais, I.lanelly, Yachtera, and other places. Resolutions pledging support in the approaching atruggle were adopted. Over 2000 workpeople, it is stated, will probably be looked out is about 10 days, and the 'Tarim stopped.