DECEMBER 30TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.45 in the afternoon thepolice reported a boy adrift in a small boat off Maddock’s Slip, River Mersey, and in need of help. A fresh north-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea. With ex-second coxswain Stonall in charge, the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson was launched at 2.5. She found the small boat fifty yards from the sea wall, over which seas were breaking. The coxswain took the life-boat to windward of the dinghy and one of the crew jumped on board and made her fast to the life-boat. The boy was taken aboard the life-boat, and with the dinghy in tow, she reached her station again at three o’clock. - Rewards, £6 4s..