The mayor of Southampton (Mr. W.H.Davis) has received subscriptions amounting to about Pounds 500 to the fund he has established for relief of the relatives dependent upon those who lost their lives in the Douro. Among them are the following: -- Royal Mail Company, Pounds 250; Messrs Miller and Co., Bristol, Pounds 100; Mr. Eden Colville, Mr. T.R. Tuffnell, Mr. C. Chapman, Mr. S.H. Curtis, Mr. H. Edlmann, Mr. J. Savory, Admiral W.S.H. Whish, Mr. R. Marshall, and Mr. A. Wilson (directors and managers of the Royal Mail Company), Mr. J.M. Lloyd (secretary) and Captain Bevis (superintendent at Southampton) Pounds 10 each ; the Mayor of Southampton, Mrs. O. Lamb, and Mr. A.S. Lamb, five guineas each; Mrs. Bevis, Mr. O. Horseman, and Mrs. O. Dingwall (Streatham), Pounds 5 each. The mayor has ascertained that there are six widows, one aged mother, and 14 children, left destitute, and it is desired also to render some help to the seamen who lost their kit in the wreck. He proposes that the fund shall be administered by a committee elected from and by the subscribers.

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