MINEHEAD, SOMERSETSHIRE. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Minehead, there being sufficient men available for manning and launching the boat, in order to strengthen the Life-boat Service on the coast of Somer- set. The local residents unanimously desired the formation of this Life-boat Establishment. The Life-boat sent to the station is of the "Liverpool" non- self-righting type, 35 ft. long, 10 ft.

wide, rows twelve oars double-banked, and is provided with masts and sails; she is fitted with two drop keels to increase her weatherly qualities. A new boat-house, from the designs of the Engineer and Architect of the Institu- tion, has been constructed for the use of the boat on a convenient site granted by Mr. G. F. LUTTRELL, the Lord of the Manor. The cost of the new boat and equipment has been defrayed from a gift to the Institution by the late Miss LEICESTER, of Bayswater, London, for the purpose of providing a Life-boat for the English coast, and in accordance with the donor's wishes the boat is named the George Leicester.

KILLOUGH, CO. DOWN.—Another Life- boat Establishment has been founded by the Institution for the better pror tection of Dundrum Bay, and the Life- boat Station at Tyrella has been closed.

Although the Branch, in accordance with the desire of the local residents, will always be known as the Killough Branch, the actual location of the station is at the boat harbour near Rossglass, where a suitable house has been erected, with watch room and committee room. The crew will be driven over from Killough when the boat's services are needed, and once a year one of the quarterly exercises will take place at Killough. The Life-boat chosen by the crew is a boat precisely similar to the one sent to Minehead— described in the last paragraph—pro- vided with a transporting carriage and launching poles. The legacy received by the Institution from the estate of the late Mrs. HELEN GROOME, of Liver- pool, to provide a new Life-boat station has been utilised for the Killough Station, and the boat has been named the John Groome, the name chosen by the donor.

BANFF, SCOTLAND; CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX; FLAMBOROUGH No. 2, YORK- SHIRE; ISLE OF WHITHORN AND STORNO- WAY, SCOTLAND.—Prior to the close of last year new Life-boats were also supplied to these stations. The cost of the Banff new boat, a 35 ft. ten-oared one of the self-righting class, was de- frayed from a munificent gift to the Institution by Mrs. BERREY, of St.

Leonard's, as a memorial, and the Life- boat is named the George and Mary Berrey. Precisely similar boats were sent to Flamborough, Whithorn and Stornoway; the first-named will, like her predecessor, be known as the Matthew Middlewood, after the original donor, whose gift has been liberally supplemented by his daughter, Miss MIDDLEWOOD, of Rufforth, Yorkshire; the Whithorn boat is named the George and Margaret, the name selected by the Institution's generous benefactor, Mr. GEORGE LEVY, of "Wood Green, whose legacy was appropriated to the building of this boat. The Stornoway new Life-boat was the outcome of an anonymous gift to the Institution from " T. E. W.," and as desired by the unknown donor is called the Sarah Pilkington. The Clacton new Life-boat is a large sailing boat of the " Watson " type, 45 ft. long and 12 ft. wide, and is named, like her predecessor, Albert Edward, after His Majesty the King, the replaced boat being one of the two endowed boats presented to the Institu- tion some years since by the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England in commemoration of the safe return from India of the Most Worshipful Grand Master, then H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.