THE Life-boat Saturday season is now in full swing and all over the country the various Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries which have been organised for helping on the movement are hard at work. During the last few months a slight improvement would seem to have taken place in trade and the money market authorities state that money is more plentiful than it was last year, and, indeed, than, it has been since before the South African War. This —if tru§ —is good and encouraging news and we may therefore expect, or at all events hope, that the workers for the Life-boat cause may now reap a richer harvest as a reward for their generous and self-denying efforts than has been their lot for some years past.

The Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund were busily engaged early in the year in re-organising the arrangements for promoting the Life- boat Saturday collections, and it is earnestly hoped that the changes made may produce good results. The main object the Central Committee had in remodelling their modus opcrandi was to secure increased efficiency in working with a reduction in expenditure, so that every possible shilling may be gathered in for the great life-saving work of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION. All taking an interest in this very humane undertaking will recognise the importance of the realisation of the businesslike aims of the Central Com- mittee in this direction and we feel sure that all the Demonstration and Collection Committees in the various cities and towns, where efforts are being made to raise funds for the cause, will do their utmost to support the Central Committee in London by so directing their operations as to produce the largest possible collections with the least possible outlay..