MAY 3RD. - CROMARTY. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the Seaforth Highlanders Depot at Fort George that theferry boat Tim, running from Fort George to Chanory, with the depot band of twelve men on board, had broken down when half-way across and was drifting towards the Riff Sands. A S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat James Macfee was launched at 3.10 P.M., and found the Tim three miles off her course. She was riding at anchor, but the anchor would not have held had the wind increased. The ferryman having gone ashore with one of the bandsmen in a dinghy for help, the life-boat landed the eleven remaining men at Chanory Point. She then put out again and towed the boat to anchorage, arriving back at her moorings at 6.35 P.M.-Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..