From a Boy of Seven.

The following letter, enclosing 3s., from St. Edmunds, West Mersea, near Colchester, was received by the Honorary Secretary at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston not long after the service to the Georgia, in which the Life-boat from that Station played a very gallant part: " Seeing the Life-boat on my summer holiday, and hearing of the brave deeds of the Life-boatmen, I thought I would like to send my pennies to help.—From J. Smith, age 1 years." In Gratitude for the Service to the "Georgia." The same service to the Georgia brought from an Amsterdam merchant a subscription of a guinea, " in order to show his personal appreciation," and a gift of £6 5s. from the officers and men of the British steamer Oilfield, sent when the steamer was lying at New Orleans, in the United States of America.

Another Children's Gift.

The following letter from the Church of England School, Langton-by-Spilsby, in Lincolnshire, also deserves to be quoted in full:— " We shall be so happy if you will accept our small gift of five shillings and sixpence for the Life-boat fund. We say a little prayer every day for the sailormen and we wish them all a very ' Merrie Christmas ' and a bright and glad New Year.

" We thought perhaps you might like a snapshot of our little school.

Will you please accept it with all our best wishes for Christmas and the New Year 1 " God Bless the Life-boat.

" We beg to remain, " Your tiny friends, "The Small Pupils of the Church of England School, Langtonby- Spilsby." " The snapshot is the idea of the children themselves. As a matter of fact the whole letter is practically theirs ! " This is the third gift received from this school.

From the Chaplain-in-Chief of the R.A.F.

Last November the Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force sent a gift of over £26, which he had collected at parade services.

From the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

A gift of £50 was received at the end of last vear from the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, stationed at Cairo. In 1926 the Battalion sent £49, and the year before £45.

Each year it heads the list of contributions from the Army. In sending the gift the Adjutant wrote that the greater part of it came from the men themselves, and that the battalion had twice been shipwrecked. The first time was in the Abercrombie Robinson, in 1842, and the second ten years later, when the battalion was on board the famous Birkenhead, lost off South Africa.

From the Readers of "The Quiver." Last November the sum of £116 4s. Id.

was sent 'by the editor of the Quiver from his readers. It was as long ago as 1865 that the Institution received the Quiver's first gift, amounting to £627, with which a Life-boat was built, being stationed at Margate. Three similar gifts were received in the succeeding years, with the result that Quiver Life-boats were stationed also at Southwold and Queenstown ; while with the fourth gift the Margate Lifeboat was replaced by a new Boat.

Chocolate for the Life-boats.

Messrs. Cadbury, Messrs. Fry, and Messrs. Rowntree have each sent the Institution thirty tins of chocolate.

These three firms have for a number of years supplied, as their contribution to the Service, all the chocolate required by the Life-boats for emergency rations.

From a Lighthouse.

The wife of the Lighthouse-keeper at Flamborough Head, during last year, collected nearly £33 for the Institution..