DUNGARVAN.—At 6.50 P.M. on the 1st November the Life-boat William Dunville was launched in response to signals ofistress which were shown from the S.B.

flanmire, of Cork, with a general cargo, crew of twenty-four men, and six pasengers, which was in a sinking condition, tree and a half miles S. of Helvick Head, er propeller having made a large hole nder her port quarter. The passengers•were taken into the Life-boat from the ship's boats, and, under the guidance of the Life-boat men, the vessel was beached on Whitehonse Bank, where she remained \ in safety until the tide ebbed, and the damage was then sufficiently repairedto enable the steamer to proceed into harbour..