PALLING and WINTESTOX, NOBFOLK.— At 9.25 A.M., on the 16th January, a telephone message was received at Pal- ling stating that a steamer was ashore on the Hasboro' Sands.

The No. 2 Life-boat Hearts of Oak was promptly despatched and found the s.s. Excellent of Sunderland, bound from the Tyne to London with a cargo of coal on the sand. The weather at the time was hazy, the wind about S.W., a fresh breeze and a nasty choppy sea.

The Life-boat in going alongside the steamship received considerable damage being partially stove in, but the crew were engaged to try and salve the vessel and failing that to save the twenty-two men on board. The crew of the Winter- ton No. 2 Life-boat, which had also put off to the vessel, were in addition engaged by the Captain to assist in the salvage work. Anchors were run out and the work proceeded until the after- noon when with the assistance of a tug the vessel got off. She was then taken, accompanied by the Life-boats, into Yarmouth Harbour, the Life-boats getting back to their respective stations next day..