GREAT YARMOUTH.—On the 18th March the barque Hakon Jarl, of Arendal, Norway, bound for G-oole, with a cargo of logwood, which had been riding in the roadstead, was seen drifting towards the Scroby Sands with a signal of distress flying. The wind was blowing from the N., the weather was thick, with hail squalls, and the sea was very rough.

The Life-boat John Burch was launched at 1.10 P.M., and, on reaching the vesseJ, found that she had parted from twoanchors and was riding with only a small kedge anchor on the Bell Buoy shoal, the worst part of the edge of the Scroby Sands. She had struck the ground three times and was leaking badly. The ship's boat had been got out, the men's clothes had been put into it and the crew of nine men had also got on board, the master only being left in the vessel. The nine men must have incurred considerable danger of the boat being capsized by the heavy seas. They went back to the barque and, with the help of the Lifeboat men, the anchor was slipped and the vessel was towed by a steam-tug into Yarmouth harbour, arriving there about 6.30 P.M..