AT the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th January, and presided over by Mr.

CHAS. G. TURNER, C.B., Mr. CHAS. DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the number of the contributors now exceeded 15,000, and that the Committee had paid to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT IN- STITUTION in 1895 the sum of 674Z. 11s. 6 £.

to meet the payment of all expenses during the year connected with the maintenance of the seven Life-boat stations, for the building and endowing of the boats, of which the Fund had already found the means, and also a further sum of 1752.

10s. to recoup the Institution the money paid during the year in rewarding the crews of the Civil Service boats for services. The payment by the Fund for the new boat-house and felipway, which have just been completed by the In- stitution for the Civil Service Life-boat at Douglas, Isle of Man, at a cost of 1,450?. was also considered.