METHIL and BUCKHAVEN, FIFESHIRE— I On the application of the local residents a new Life-boat station has been formed at Buckhaven, on the north side of the Firth of Forth, where there are plenty of fishermen available to work the Life-boat.

There is a considerable number of vessels visiting this district in the course of the year, and several shipwrecks have occurred, with consequent risk of life to those on board in the absence of an efficient Life-boat. The boat specially built for this station, at the request of the local fishermen, is a non-self-righting boat of the Liverpool type; she is 35 feet long and 10 feet wide, and has a trans- porting-carriage provided with Tipping's plates, as the harbour at Buckhaven dries out to the South Pier head, and the ground is flat and soft in many places; pushing-poles have also been supplied to help in getting the boat afloat. A new Lifeboat house and a launching slipway have been built from the designs, and under the superintendence of, the engineer and architect of the Institution, and tho Life-boat establishment may now ba looked on as a perfect type of a modern Life-boat station.

The Committee decided to appropriate to the Life-boat the legacy of 2,OOOZ.

bequeathed to the Institution by the late Mrs. ISABELLA HAXTON, of Kickcaldy, to provide a Life-boat to be named the Isabella, and placed on the Fifeshire coast.

HUNSTANTON," NORFOLK; DUNGARVAN, co. WATERFORD ; WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE and WEXFORD.—The Life-boats which have been doing good work on these stations for many years have recently been replaced by new and improved boats.

The first-named one is a self-rightingboat, 35 feet long, 8£ feet wide, and roving 10 oars double-banked; like the boat she superseded, she is named the Licensed Victualler. The Walton - on - the - Naze boat is a large sailing-boat of the improved Norfolk and Suffolk type, 43 feet long and 12i feet wide, and is named James Stevens No. 14; and the Dungarvan and Wexford new boats are " Watson " sailing- boats, 40 feet long, named respectively James Stevens Nos. 15 and 16, having been provided from the munificent bequest left to the Institution by the gentleman of that name who resided in Birmingham.

The two last-named boats were sailed to their stations from the Thames, and the master who was in charge of the Wexford boat reported that he had a good chance of trying her when about ten miles off Cape Cornwall, with a strong wind blow- ing from the E.S.E. and a heavy head sea from N.N.E. Carrying all sail, she put her lee bow under water, and was partly filled by the seas. She was being hard pressed, in fact, being without ballast; but with a double reef in her sails she did much better, and proved herself to be possessed of the finest sailing qualities, sailing 8 or 10 knots without trouble. She is a splendid boat, and fit to go anywhere in any weather.