APRIL 2ND. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX. At 11.12 A.M. the military authorities reported, through the coastguard, that a soldier was adrift in a small rowing boat, without oars, about four hundred yards off Butlin’s Camp. A moderately strong N.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate swell. The motor life-boat The Brothers, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.43 A.M., found the boat and the soldier, and brought them back, arriving at her station at 12.37 P.M.

The officers of the unit to which the soldier belonged sent their thanks. - Rewards, £3 19s. 6d.