JANUARY 23RD. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.

Just before five in the afternoon the naval authorities at Newhaven telephoned through the coastguard asking for the lifeboat to go out and investigate a rubber dinghy one mile south-east-by-east from E a s t b o u r n e c o a s t g u a r d l o o k - o u t h u t . A west-south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Jane Holland was launched at 5.25 and found the dinghy off Pevensey Bay, being blown rapidly along by the gale. It was empty. The life-boat brought it back, arriving at 6.30, and handed it over to the police. - Rewards, £22 14s..