DECEMBER 19TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.

At 3.45 in the afternoon the postmaster at Sandness telephoned that a woman was seriously ill on the island of Papa-Stour and that a doctor was urgently needed. A full gale had been blowing from the south-east, with a very rough sea, for three days, and no ordinary boat could make the passage. The motor life-boat The Rankin was launched at 4.30, with a doctor. She reached the island at six o’clock. The doctor found the patient too ill to be moved to the mainland in that weather. He did all that was possible, and the life-boat took him back to Aith, arriving at 10.20 that night. - Rewards, £16 15s.

Repaid to the Institution..