MAY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.

At 5.30 in the afternoon the Dock Board reported a small boat, with two boys on board, off C.6 Red Buoy, in the Mersey, rapidly drifting out to sea. The No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson left her moorings at 5.45 in a moderate easterly wind, with a choppy sea. On her way she was told by wireless that the boys had landed on the revetment opposite C.3 Red Buoy. Here the life-boat found them at 6.30 and took them on board. She reported to the Crosby Lightship, and reached her station again with the boys and their boat at eight that evening. - Rewards, £6 18s..