Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 1st January a vessel was seen to be in distress. She was the cargo steamer Crackshot, of Newcastle, bound with a cargo of coal and a crew of twenty-one from the Tyne to London. She had stranded on a shoal near N.W. Scroby buoy. A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing, with a very choppy sea, and the weather was thick, with rain. The pulling and sailing life-boat CharUs Burton was launched at 10.15 A.M., and tugs also put out. The life-boat crew helped to jettison some of the cargo in an effort to get the Crackshot off, and the life-boat stood by all that day and night and the following morning. The captain of the Crackshot then said that he would signal for the life-boat if he needed her again, and she returned to her station, arriving at 1 P.M. She had been on service for nearly twentyseven hours. The Crackshot -was refloated at about 1.30 A.M. on the 5th January.—Property Salvage Case..