LLANDUDNO.—On Sunday, the 12th April, a message was received by telephone from Colwyn Bay, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, stating that a brigantine was showing signals of distress. She was lying at anchor about two and a half miles distant from the shore, and her crew were working hard at the pumps.

The wind was then blowing a gale from N., and a very heavy sea was running.

The crew and launchers of the Life-boat, Sunlight No. 1, were summoned, and the boat was got out of her house and was about to be launched, but owing to one of the horses jibbing, the wheel-plate eanght the chain trace and pulled the horse down, the wheel coming on to, but fortunately not injuring, the animal. The accident however delayed the launch, -but, once afloat, the boat, after being rowed some little distance from the shore to allow of sail being hoisted, sped towards the wreck, being three times completely buried by the heavy seas which broke over her, reached the vessel, rescued her crew of four men, and safely landed them at Colwyn Bay.

She was the Waree, of and for Dundalk from Liverpool, coal laden, and was in sinking state in consequence of having sprung a leak and of the stress of weather, and a report was afterwards received that she had gone down..