Longhope, Orkneys.—On the morning of the 21st February, a resident of Heckness reported that it was necessary to get his son to Scapa in order that he might be operated upon for appendicitis, but that the conditions were too bad for any ordinary boat to make the trip.

A moderate gale was blowing and the sea was rough. The weather was very cold, with rain. The motor life-boat Thomas McCunn, which was still lying at the pier after her launch on the 19th, put off with the patient at noon, and returned to the pier at 3.30 P.M. The father became an annual subscriber to the Institution in gratitude for the life-boat's help.—Rewards, £5 14s..