St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—During a strong W.S.W. gale, with a heavy sea, on the afternoon of the 9th January, the coastguard reported that the motor launch Nor Nor, belonging to St.

Mary's, was about two hundred yards south of St. Martin's Pier with one of her two engines out of action. The motor life-boat Cunard put out and stood by while the launch got her second engine working again; she then escorted her to St. Mary's. The master of the launch stated that in his thirty-one years' experience he had never known such a sea off St.

Martin's. At times the wind reached a velocity of 84 miles per hour. In recognition of the life-boat's promptitude in getting away in such weather, the owners of the launch made a monetary gift to each member of her crew and a donation to the Institution.— Rewards, £12 Ss. 3d..