On the 4th August a severe gale from N.N.W. burst over this coast, and the fishing fleet, which did not return the previous evening, when the weather became threatening, was caught in the gale. The lugger Betsey Ann, of Port Gordon, N.B., while working up in the height of the gale, lost all her sails in a squall, and being embayed and driven to leeward, hoisted signals of distress. The Havelock life-boat was thereupon at once launched, and fortunately succeeded in rescuing the crew of 5 men from the lugger, when she was within a short distance of a dangerous reef of rocks, towards which she was driving rapidly. The life-boat was reported to have behaved nobly on the occasion.