"All my Pocket-Money." ONE shilling and threepence has been received from a little boy of Greenford, Middlesex, with a letter saying, " This is all my pocket-money; best wishes." No Tips! A cook-housekeeper working in Richmond has sent a donation with, a letter in which she said that she did not care to take tips, and when, these were offered her she accepted them not for herself but for the Life-boat Service.

Ten Shillings from an Infants' School.

A gift of ten shillings has been received from the children of the " Forster" Infants' School, Holloway, London.

The children are all between four and eight years old, and this is the second year in. which they have sent ten shillings.

A Gift from the Montrose Crews.

The Crews of the two Life-boats stationed at Montrose carried out their usual exercise on 20th August, the same day on which Montrose held its Lifeboat Day. They returned to the Institution, as a gift, the sum of £6 10s.

which they had received from it in payment for this exercise.

A IJd. Stamp.

We give the following letter in full: " Mummy gave me a stamp to put on a letter to Daddy but I put it in the box without and am sending it for the Life-boatmen as Daddy said he was so brave and did not get enough. With love from Mary." Although, since our letter, as well as Daddy's, was unstamped, it is the General Post Office which has principally benefited by this donation, we are none the less grateful! Gift to Sir William Hillary.

Two pounds has been received, addressed to Sir William Hillary— who .founded the Institution 104 years ago! From an "Old Blind Lady." A woollen scarf has been sent anonymously with the message, "For one of the Life-boatmen, knitted by an old blind lady." A Weighing Machine's Contribution.

A London, chemist has sent twentyfive shillings, being the proceeds of his weighing machine, all of which he puts in a Life-boat box.

From the R.R.S. "Discovery." When the E.R.S. Discovery reached the Thames after her two years' cruise in the Antarctic, investigating the life of whales, her wardroom officers sent the Institution a donation of over £7.

The Right Response.

When one of the officials of the Institution was going home, just after receiving the first account of the gallant service, on the 28th October, of the Moelfre Life-boat, he showed a copy of the account to a travelling acquaintance.

The acquaintance read it through and, saying " I think that is worth a donation," handed him a pound note.

From the Fishwives of Cullercoats.

Every August the fishwives of Cullercoats in Northumberland make a collection for the Life-boat Service when their Life-boat is launched for its exercise. They have now done this for six years, and this year the amount raised was £114; Mrs. Polly Donkin, their star collector, beating her previous year's record by nearly £4. She collected £32, a larger sum than many towns contribute in the whole year.

In the six years the fishwives of Cullercoats have collected over £600.

A Gift from the St. Abbs Crew.

The Crew of the Motor Life-boat at St. Abbs, Berwickshire, which, like other Motor Life-boats, does an exercise each month, have returned, as a gift to the Institution, the pay which they received for their exercises in July and August.

An American's Fifth Gift.

In the February issue it was recorded that an American who has crossed the Atlantic over 100 times, and whose English ancestors went to America five years after the Mayflower sailed, had made three separate gifts in admiration of the Institution's work, amounting to £102 10s., in the names of himself, his son, and daughter, that they might be enrolled as Honorary Vice-Presidents of the Institution. He has now made a fourth gift of a hundred guineas in the names of four of his friends that they also may become Honorary Vice-Presidents, and a fifth gift of fifty guineas in the name of two more friends, making a total of £260..