AT the annual meeting of the Committee of this Fund on the 18th January, pre- sided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, hon. secretary, re- ported that during the. year the Fund, which numbers upwards of 12,000 sub- scribers of half-a-crown, had contributed 1,OOOZ. to the National Institution to complete the endowment of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 1, and 116?. to recoup the Institution the amount expended by it during 1892 in rewarding the crews of the Civil Service boats for services. The seven Life-boats which the Fund has presented to the National Institution and endowed have been instrumental in saving 214 lives and several vessels.