JANUARY 1ST. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. On New Year’s Eve, at about 9.30 P.M., the coastguard notified the life-boat authorities that a boat was ashore on Christchurch Bar, but not in immediate danger. A moderate E. wind was blowing with a heavy ground swell and the night was dark and foggy. Later it was decided to send out the motor life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright, and she left at midnight. She found the motor cruiser Sea Mist, which had launched her dinghy, but it had been swamped and two oars lost. Two of the crew of the Sea Mist were taken aboard the life-boat, two of whose crew boarded the cruiser, which was leaking badly. The Sea Mist was towed into Christchurch Harbour and put on the mud, her crew being put ashore at Mudeford. The lifeboat returned to her station at 7.30 A.M. - Property salvage case.