From Mid-Atlantic.

WE have received a denation of ten shillings with the following letter, which has no other address than " on the Atlantic " :—• " While a passenger on the Freighter Baby Castle, I have read with interest your Journal, and as I see that you do not despise the day of small things, I would like to add this small donation to your fund for the Institution.

With great admiration." One Week's Old Age Pension.

An anonymous gift has come with the message, " Enclosed please find Treasury note for 10s., one week's O.A.P." From a Dead Midshipman.

A lady in Berkshire has sent a gift of old coins which she found when going through some things belonging to her brother who had been drowned in the Bay of Tunis in 1864, when serving as a midshipman.

From a Volunteer Life-boatman.

Sergeant Duignan, of the Civic Guard in the Irish Free State, went out as a member of the Crew of the Life-boat at Skerries, Co. Dublin, on the night of 24th November, 1929, when she rescued the crew of four of the ketch Ivy P., of Ipswich. He was sent the same award, £1 17*. 6d., which was given to the other members of the Crew, but returned it as a donation to the Institution.

From the Chocolate Firms.

A gift of ninety tins of chocolate has been received from Messrs. Cadbury, Messrs. Fry, and Messrs. Rowntree. All Life-boats carry chocolate for the use of the rescued, and as an emergency ration for the Life-boat Crewsthemselves, and each year each of these three firms presents thirty tins as its contribution to the Life-boat Service.

From the Sale of Christmas Cards.

A lady in Essex, besides her annual sub- scription of one guinea, has sent £1 4s. &d., the proiit made by the sale of Christmas cards and calendars. She hopes to do the same again next Christmas, and to send still more.From Boys and Girls.

We have had a number of very touching gifts from boys and girls.

The Brownies of the 6th Crouch End Pack have sent a gift from their Farthing Fund.

The Petersfield (Hampshire) Junior School have sent a gift out of their own Christmas Party Fund.

The boys of Raywood Street L.C.C. School, Battersea, after hearing, in the Essay Com- petition Lecture, that d. per head of our population was needed to maintain the Life- boats, themselves proposed having a " whip round " for the Life-boats.

The children of Barnton Brunner Council School, Northwich, Cheshire, also held a collection, in which the staff joined, when they heard that if every one gave IJd. a year it would maintain the whole Service.

The boys of Bedford Junior School have taken the Lowestoft Life-boat Station under their special protection, and have sent several gifts to the Honorary Secretary.

The boys of Heath Brow School, Hemel Hempstead, after hearing a lecture by Mr.

Greene, the Honorary Secretary at Herne Bay, made a collection among themselves, although, as is the rule with all lectures to schools, no appeal was made..