DECEMBER 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.

At two in the afternoon a fisherman reported a fishing boat in distress about one mile southsouth- west of Dungeness Lighthouse. She was seen to have a flag flying and had burned a flare. The motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 2.15 in a moderate sea with a north-westerly wind blowing, and found the fishing boat Minnie, of Rye, with two men on board. Her engine had broken down. She had been drifting for some considerable time and the men were exhausted by their unsuccessful efforts to re-start the engine. The life-boat towed the Minnie to moorings in Rye harbour, and reached her station again at six in the evening. - Rewards, £23 13s. 6d.