From an Old Carthusian.

ON Trafalgar Day last year the Institu- tion received the following letter :— " In accordance with an old-estab- lished custom, I have pleasure in for- warding, in order to reach you on the 21st October (Trafalgar Day), the con- tents of the collecting box now standing in my son's name to be allocated to the ' Charterhouse ' Life-boat stationed at Fishguard. The enclosed cheque, £3 3s. 3d., completes a freight of £200, since 1894, 31 years of ' service,' accord- ing to our records, and our Boat is fit for many more years of ' duty' we hope." From a Village Church.

Last December came a cheque for £6, which was the offertory at a little church in Kent, at which the Vicar spoke about the Life-boat Service. With the cheque he wrote : " I wish it were more, but our parish is only 100, and with one exception all agricultural labourers, so you can't expect much from them.

They seemed much interested in the work of your Society, and we used your charming little Life-boat Collecting Box for the offertory, which, I told them, was ' unsinkable,' so they need not be afraid to fill her! We shall hope to make an annual contribution." From Listeners-In.

Last Autumn William Adams, at one time Coxswain at North Deal, who holds the Institution's Silver Medal for gallantry, with two bars, gave a talk about his experiences on the wireless.

The talk was broadcasted from London, and brought the Institution more than one gift from those who had listened-in.

One contributor wrote: " I was so impressed by ' Bill Adams'' account of his work at Deal that I felt I must do a little towards the heroic work." Another contributor sent £5 from Bangor, in the north of Ireland, in admiration of the splendid work done for humanity by the Life-boatmen.

From the Deaf and Dumb.

At the beginning of this year the Church Institute for the Deaf and Dumb at Clapham sent the proceeds of one of its collections, because, so the missionary of the Institute writes, " The work of the Life-boat Service appeals to the imagination of the deaf and dumb in a really wonderful way. If the hymn ' Eternal Father, strong to save' is given out and signed as part of their devotions, there are more tokens of interest and sympathy than in numbers of other hymns signed and familiar to us all." From the Smallest Church in the World.

A gift of £5 has been received from the Warden of the Temple of the Brave at Hedge End, Hampshire. This War Memorial Church, which the Warden, Mr. William Adams, claims to be the smallest church in the world, he built entirely with his own hands. It was dedicated at the end of 1924, and in the first year since it was completed he has collected nearly £70 for charities. Mr.

Adams comes of a family who were well-known ship-builders at Buckler's Hard, Beaulieu, Hampshire, in the days of wooden battleships, and the Life-boat Eliza Adams, which served for twelve years at Wells on the Norfolk coast was built out of the Penny Reading Life-boat Fund, raised by a member of the same family..