Baltimore, Co. Cork.—On the 9th January the collier Miriam Thomas, of Liverpool, broke from her moorings during a whole S.S.W. gale, with a rough sea, and drifted broadside on towards a dangerous lee. shore. At 3.30 P.M. the motor life-boat Shamrock put out. She stood by the collier for about two hours, until she had reached a safe anchorage under the shelter of Sherkin Island. The life-boat returned at 6 P.M., but had to be left in the harbour until she could be rehoused on the morning of the llth January.— Rewards, £14 14s. 3d..