SCOTLAND.
Captain Craigie's success in raising Coast Guard volunteers has been good on the whole. Up to the end of last week, 800 out of the 1500 re- quired had been enrolled.
The crews of the Peterhead sealers and whalers have struck for a large advance of pay at the time that the ships were in process of fitting- out for the fishery. The owners consider the demands exorbitant.
The Oakbank spinning-factory, near Glasgow, has been destroyed by fire. Three hundred persons are thrown out of employment.
A collier near Glasgow brought home two tin flasks, one containing gun- powder and the other some cold tea which he had not drunk while at work. The flasks were similar. He told his wife to put the tea on the fire to warm ; she took the wrong flask ; after a time the powder exploded, shattering the room, and wounding the people in it.
There has been another fatal wreck on the island of Barra, near the place where the Annie Jane was lost. The Liverpool ship W. H. Davis, bound for New Orleans, struck on the rocks near Vatersay, during the night of the 27th January, and was soon dashed to pieces. The steward only managed to gain the rocks, and his thirty shipmates all perished.
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