FRASERBURGH, N.B. — On the 25th August one of the most severe storms ever experienced at this season of the year prevailed here. A report had been circulated among the fishermen on the previous day that a storm was at hand, and on that day only about one-fourth of the fishing-boats proceeded to sea. On the 25th, the weather having been fine in the forenoon and afternoon, the whole fleet, numbering eight hundred and sixty boats, went out. Towards night rain began to fall, and by 9 o'clock there was every appearance of a gale. All through the night the boats were returning to the harbour, and by daylight between four hundred and five hundred of the boats had arrived. The wind having veered round from S.E. to N.E., and the violence of the gale increasing, the work of reaching the harbour was rendered exceedingly difficult. To meet any emergency which might occur, the Life-boat Cosmo and Charles was launched at 7 o'clock on the following morning and acted as a guide to the boats which were running for the harbour. From early morning until late at night the piers were crowded, and the excitement was most intense. One boat was wrecked on th'e rocks to the south of Fraserburgh, but her crew were saved.

Many of the boats which reached the harbour lost the whole of their nets, valued for each boat at from 1001. to 150Z.

Some idea of the strength of the gale may be gathered from the fact that thewaves dashing over Balaclava Pier were so heavy as to carry away the travelling crane belonging to the Harbour Commissioners, which, with its engine and ballast, weighed about fifty tons..