On 24th January following the life-boat again went out, during a hurricane from the S., to the assistance of the schooner Mischief, of Carnarvon, which had gone ashore on the Parten Stiel Rocks, about a mile and a half to the south of the island, and had hoisted a flag of distress. After an hour and a half of great exertion, the life-boat behaving admirably, the vessel was reached, and five men and a boy were safely | taken to land. A fishing-coble, which also • went out to assist the Mischief, was unable to reach the wreck.