and was picked up with a broken leg. This storm, which so greatly raged between Christmas Eve and the 27th of December, overtook the “Harbinger” schooner, (Coppard, master) belonging to the Messrs. Kent and Winter of Hastings, which was in ballast and on the way to Shields. She was driven into the North Sea, where the weather was terrific. Coppard’s good seamanship had been many times well tried, and was again put to the test in the hour of peril. The vessel’s sails were blown away, and the ballast having shifted, she was laid on her beam-ends for the space of two hours. The crew then cut away the masts and the vessel righted. In that conditions she was afterwards towed by a smack into port, 18 miles from North Shields, the passage occupying 60 hours. During the same hurricane a German emigrant ship, with ten sailors and 74 emigrants, was wrecked in Dungeness Bay, and only 5 of the crew and 34 of the emigrants, were saved. *See opposite 225 page for other sad wrecks of the year.
The Census
The statistics of last year’s census showed that both the town and borough of Hastings, or rather the borough and registration district of Hastings had increased in population more largely or rapidly than that of any other important town in Sussex. The population and percentage of increase of the undernamed places are here shewn:
| Population | Total increase | Percentage increase[1] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton | 65,572 | 18,912 | 4.05 |
| Lewes | 25,713 | 897 | 0.36 |
| Worthing | 18,749 | 1,181 | 0.67 |
| Hastings Boro’ | 17,620 | 5,831 | 4.94 |
| Hastg’s District | 21,214 | 6,378 | 4.30 |
Vital Statistics
During the June quarter the births in the Hastings District were 171 — twenty-seven above the average of the preceding four years. The deaths were 68, or 35 below the average of the same period. The marriages, although eleven short of those in 1851, were 43 in number, and one more than the said four years average.
Particular Deaths
Mr. Tilden Smith, jun., the eldest son of a partner in the Hastings old Bank, who was seized with illness a month before, died on the 5th of August.
Mr. Dungate Thwaites, expired at his residence, Bedford Cottage, on Aug. 4th, at the age of 61. He was well-known and respected as Inspector of Nuisances to the Local Board of Health, and before that as Surveyor to the Hastings Commissioners. In earlier life he was a block-maker and master-shipwright. His remains were interred at Ore (old) cemetery, as were those of two of his three consecutive wives.
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- ↑ Brett has the decimal point in the wrong place, it should be one place to the right.
