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1 lb. of Tobacco a Year for the Life-Boats

THE Glasgow Branch has received ten guineas from the Captain and Crew of the motor-ship Cape York of the Lyle Shipping Company of Glasgow. Before passing round the Institution's collecting-book the Captain wrote in it a special appeal in which he said, " Perhaps some of you with wives and families to support feel you cannot afford a subscription, but what about doing without say one pound of tobacco in one year, and subscribing the equivalent in cash ? " The result shows what a good appeal this was..