DECEMBER 17TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 10.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that the sea was rising and that the coble Provider was still at sea. At 11.15 the motor life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched. A strong southsouth- easterly wind was then blowing and the sea was rough. The life-boat found the coble four miles north-north-east of Church Point, and escorted her in, arriving at one o’clock. - Rewards, £26 3s..