Longhope, Orkneys, Wick, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Early on the morning of the 12th January the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden strucka rock in the Pentland Firth. She had thirty-eight persons, including women and children, on board, and was bound, with a general cargo, from New York to Gothenburg. Two boats were launched from her and one got ashore with five of the thirteen people on board her dead. The other boat was lost. Altogether thirty people lost their lives. The Longhope, Wick and Thurso motor life-boats all searched for the missing boat, but without success. An enquiry is to be held on the wreck and a full account will be published after this enquiry. An increase in the usual money reward on the standard scale was made to the Thurso crew to bring its rewards up to those of the Wick crew.—Rewards Longhope, £12 Os. 6d.; Wick, £18 16*.; and Thurso, £17 17s..