FEBRUARY 10TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. A t 8.20 P.M. fishermen reported that a vessel was ashore on the Outer Carrs Rocks, north of Newbiggin Point. A light wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. It was foggy.

At 8.50 P.M. the motor life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched and found the S.S. Yewglen, of Glasgow, stranded. Her coxswain decided to stand by the steamer until the tide rose. After the life-boat had stood by for one and a half hours, water was found to be entering the engine room of the life-boat, and the life boat returned to her station at 11.40 P.M. She is driven by Hotchkiss Cone Propulsion, and it was found that a plate inside the cone covering had sprung and that the impellers were forcing water through the cavity into the engine room. Repairs were quickly made and at 3.15 A.M. the life-boat put out again to the steamer, and stood by until she refloated at 5.30 A.M., and was able to go on her way. The life-boat then returned to her station at 6.10 A.M. While the repairs to the machinery of the Newbiggin life-boat were being made, the life-boat crew at the neighbouring station of Blyth stood by in case their life-boat was wanted. - Rewards : Newbiggin, 1st launch, £25 14s. 6d; 2nd launch, £25 14s. 6d. ; Blyth, £3 15s.