Concert and Thanksgiving Service.

The Centenary Celebrations in Douglas were held on Saturday and Sunday, May 22nd and 23rd, the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., going to Douglas specially to take part in them. On the Saturday afternoon the Life-boat was launched, and in the evening an entertainment was held in Villa Manna. His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, who had just returned from opening the third day of the Manchester Life-boat Bazaar, was present, and Sir Godfrey Baring delivered an address.

On the Sunday afternoon there was a procession to St. George's Church, in the graveyard of which Colonel Sir William Hillary, Bt., the founder of the Institution, is buried. A number of wreaths were laid on his grave, among them wreaths from the Norwegian Government, and the Life-boat Stations of Douglas, Ramsey and Peel. Hundreds watched the procession from the road- side, and the church was filled to over- flowing for the Thanksgiving Service.

Among those present were representa- tives of the House of Keys, the Mayor and Corporation of Douglas, and representatives of various public bodies, and of the Isle of Man Life-boat Stations. The sermon was preached by the late Bishop of Sodor and Man (Dr. Denton-Thompson), who paid a tribute to the memory of Sir William Hillary—a man who sought first, not what many are first seeking, wealth or ease, pleasure or comfort, but to do his duty to please God, to serve his country, and, especially, to save the shipwrecked sailor. In the course of the sermon he said : " There is no experience in lifewhich demonstrates more fully human weakness than a ship in a storm. All that science and skill can do—and they are doing more and more—cannot subdue the winds and the waves. Yet let it be remembered that as darkness reveals some things which the light conceals, and millions of stars, that are hid by day, are seen at night, so storms and shipwrecks disclose undreamed of courage, endurance, resourcefulness, sacrifice and heroism which we could never see but for these tragedies on the sea." Thanksgiving Services and Century Life-boat Days were held at Ramsey, Peel and Port Erin, and a Century Life- boat Day was held at Port St. Mary..