OCTOBER 11TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.

Shortly after 9.30 at night the Paignton police reported a boat on fire off Roundham Head. The weather was calm, but there was a dense fog. The motor life-boat George Shee was launched at 9.50. Guided by shouts and a light, she found two punts and an outboard motor-boat with four men and two boys on board. They had been prawning, but their principal boat, the motor boat Westcoast, of Torquay, had caught fire, when they were pouring petrol from a tin into the tank, with a lighted hurricane lamp close by, and they had scuttled her. The life-boat took the six on board, towed their three boats to Torquay, and reached her station again at 1.10 next morning. - Rewards, £14 6s. 6d..