Port Askaig, Islay— At 11 P.M. on the 5th December, during the height of a northerly gale, a steamer, bound north, stopped and signalled by morse to the life-boat station that a doctor was wanted. The weather was very cold, with heavy snow showers. A doctor arrived by car from Bridgend, and the motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth put out at 11.30 P.M., with him and the station honorary secretary, Mr. D.

Maclndeor, on board. The steamer was the Northern Coast, of Liverpool, and one of her crew had dislocated a shoulder. The doctor went on board and treated the man, and the life-boat returned to her station at 1 A.M.— Rewards, £14 18s. 6d..