SINCE the Mayor of St. Ives's fund for the dependents of the life-boatmen who lost their lives when the life-boat was wrecked on 23rd January last, was closed at the sum of £10,500, a gift of £1,670 9s. 7d. has come from South Africa.

This gift was presented to the Mayor of St. Ives on 31st August by Mr. W. Knuckey, of South Africa, accompanied by Cornish friends who had also been in South Africa. The wish of the donors was that an in- creased payment should be made direct to the widows, and the Mavor and his committee for the administration of the fund promised that the gift should be used in this way..