Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-08-14 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

REWARDS FOR GALLANTRY.  The committee of the Royal Humane Siciety lines just decided upon mane cases of saving life trio drowning which have been laid before them. To Gunner IL Sears, of the Royal Alt illety, who was already in possession of a silver medal for a pi evious act of bravery of a similar kind, the committee have awaided a silver cusp for saving the life of Mra. Seynr,ur, near Spithead. A batman was rowing 111 rs. Seymour with a child from Spit Bank to Port., mouth,when the boat was capsized by a heavy sea. Seam who saw the accident, jumped inta the water, and after a great struggle succeeded in bringing the lady towards this first landing stage, where he WU waisted byaconiride throwing lifebnoy,by which he was towed to the stage, still heldiug the rescued woman. The bronze medal has born awarded to Philip Hlogston, 47. captain of A trawler, for at,tempting to nave Th miss Mills, 18, aleitit live miles from Eddystone Lighthouse. The boy fell over the stern of the boat, and Hingston, wearing all his clothes and heavy sea 'boots, jumped after him, and kept him up for half an hear, but was obliged to hit him go after, as he believed, the boy had died in his amino. There was a miderat a bre. eel and a great ground swell at the time, and the two men left in the trawler, who got a boat out, had much difficulty in saving their captain. A bronze medal has been voted to the Rev. F. J. Smith, 38, Lecturer of Trinity College, Oxford, who, though a great sufferer from bronchitis, and but recently returned from a health sojourn in Africa, jumped into the river near Oxford and saved Jane Cooper, a girl of 13, who had fallen out of a boat and by some means got under it. Mr. Smith, having swum out and seized the girl, rescued her by climbing into a punt, and. dragging her afti r him. A bronzo medal has also been given to Gunner Henry Wallingford, Royal Artillery, fir attempting to save Gunner George Goodman, who fell from a gangway between a ateamer and a barge on the Irrawaddy, at Mandalay. The unfortunate man drifted down the stream rapidly, and Wallingford, who was within two yards of him when he cask, dived, but could not tind him, and the body was not recovered. This Irrawaddy in so treacherous from undercurrents and eddiea at Mandalay that soldiers are forbidden to bathe there. Another bronze medal has been awarded to IL F. Donegan, a schoolboy of 15, who saved Thomas Cramer, a year older, at Monkatewer, Clare, on July sth. Cramer fell into the river from a canoe, and Donegan, who sow he could not swim, jumped from a sailing boat and supported the drowoine boy for 15 minutes, until the iailing boat, containing no one but Donegen's little brother, cull cense up. There were no row boats near, and the rescue was effected half a mile from shore, and in three fathoms of water. Artie her bronze medal goes to Sergeant John Latiiner,. of the Royal Iris Constabulary, who, at great pe•sonal risk, saved a. boy of 16, James Ifawkilie, who, et Ennisworl by, had jumped into the Stauey to rescue his lath.% who committed suicide.  Archbishop Croke writes to Ustifett intleor/.. "I have just read, not unineved, the paragraph in u.'tich the brave Tyrone girt ia ',presented as crying out fir 'O'Brien and Home tele• in the midst or an exultant gang ol Otangernen. I will thAik yein to make her out auykqw, PIO hand her flirn 1.`.0 the proceeds IA the enalused cheque (1:5) to hadie'.ooefd of as she plea9es bit hes use and benefit. May God guard and bless ksir." A great fire has-occurred in the town :-.1 Biala% near Lemberg. resulting in Ili destrec4ion of 1:2 houses. Anotker serious conflagration is_ rep irticd from Ulanott, a.market town in Galicia., where about 150 houses were burnt down. Thern has beeunolbss of life at either place. Sir Arthur Bass will take the titls of Raton ihIAOU. of Rangesaore, and of Burton-upon-Trent., in the county o 5 Stafford. The title by which Sir Thomas Brassey will take his seat in the House of Loidis is Lord Basssey of Bulkeley. Su Thomas was urged to assume the style of Lord Ihilkeley of Bulkeley (a meat r3a,trim.onial estassed h te. fwhlyltfolirasorbewea lien4tr): but be preferred ta.associate with thenanie end to dedicate to the 21•1310r$ ot his fsthes the kouour now oopferred apsla,hjp3.