This Life-boat again did excellent ser- vice on the 21st October. Soon after dark on that day the schooner Auld 'Reekie, bound from Middlesborough to Barcelona with pitch, got ashore on the North Gare, at the entrance of the Biver Tees. It was blowing hard, with a considerable sea, from the S.E. The Auld Reekie burnt tar- barrels to show her distressed condition, which signal was observed from the Life- boat Station at Seaton Garew, which is a few miles north of the Tees. That station telegraphed to the Middlesborough Station, which, being to windward, and able to approach close to the wreck while still in the smooth water of the Tees, appeared to have the best chance of rendering assist- ance. At the same time the Seaton Carew Life-boat herself was started out along the beach, and conveyed by horses 2 miles farther to windward, and launched off the open shore. Before this was accomplished, however, the lights from the distressed vessel had wholly disappeared.

The Middlesborough Life-boat's crew, on the receipt of the telegram, proceeded down the river with the Life-boat Crossley, and, having communicated with the light- house keepers near the entrance of the Tees and heard no tidings of the wreck, rowed back again, and hauled their boat up.

The Seaton Carew boat's crew also, after pulling about outside for two hours, and seeing nothing, returned to their sta- tion, supposing that either the vessel had foundered, or that the Middlesborough Life-boat had rescued the crew. Before midnight both boats and crews were safely bestowed for the night. Fortunately some of the Seaton Carew men, not feeling en- tirely reassured, kept a watch. At 3 A.M.

(Oct. 22nd) the moon got up: some keen- eyed watcher caught sight of the masts of a vessel rising apparently out of the black water, and showing faintly against the now moonlit, stormy sky. The alarm was promptly given, and the farmer's horses once more attached to the Seaton Garew Life-boat carriage. That boat was then taken along the sands as before, and, at 3 A.M., for the second time launched off the beach. The masts of the wreck were hailed after nearly an hour's hard rowing; a feeble answer was returned; then the Life-boat closed, and her crew had the great satisfaction of removing from the mizen rigging of the Auld Reekie 8 poor fellows who had been in that position for eight hours, their vessel having foundered, and so extinguished their tar-barrel, at 7 P.M. The rescue was indeed timely, as the men saved were nearly in the last stage of exhaustion when the Life-boat appeared..