Kirkcudbright.—At 5.30 on the even- ing of the 20th of February, 1954, the Ross Island lighthouse keeper reported that a motor boat was drifting on the ebb tide. The coxswain had also seen her, and at 6.15 the life-boat J. B.

Couper of Glasgow was launched in a slight sea, with a light south-by-east breeze blowing. She found that the motor boat had broken down off the harbour bar, and that her crew of two were burning flares. They had been lobster fishing. The life-boat rescued them and towed their boat to the harbour, reaching her station again at eleven o'clock.—Rewards, £15 13*..