A LIFE-BOAT AS HEARSE Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 12.15 in the afternoon of January 12th, 1947, the Civic Guard asked that the life-boat should put out to Great Blasket Island and bring back the body of a man.

A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was too bad for an ordinary boat to put out. The motor life-boat C. and S. was launched at 12.40 in charge of Mr. T. R. Stewart, the honorary sec- retary of the station, and brought the body from the island, arriving back at her station at 3.0 in the morning of the 13th.—Rewards, £24 14*..