During the after- noon of the 10th July the coastguard telegraphed that a small motor boat had broken down one mile south of the Southbourne coastguard station. She was the motor boat Skylark, of Poole, and was bound, with four men and two women on board, from Littlehampton to Poole. A moderate W.S.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 4 P.M. and when abreast of Bournemouth pier saw the pleasure steamer Lorna Doone also heading in the direction of the motor boat. The Lorna Doone arrived first and was taking her in tow when the life-boat came up, so she cast her off and the life-boat picked her up and towed her safely to Poole quay.—Rewards, £18 13s. Qd..