OUR life-boats can claim to be an inter- national service, not only because they have saved lives and vessels belonging to every country with a seaboard, but because the coins of all countries find their way into the life-boat collecting boxes. In boxes in London opened recently were found coins from twenty- four different mints. The British Empire was represented by coins of Canada, Australia, South Africa, India, Cyprus, Jersey, Guernsey and the Straits Settlements. The rest of the world was represented by coins from Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, the United States, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Turkey, Egypt, Persia, and China..