MAY 10TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At eight in the evening of the 9th a man went out in his small motor boat Flora MacDonald, with his father-in-law. At 11.50 his wife reported that the boat had not returned.

At 12.45 next morning the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow was launched in a moderate easterly wind, with a slight sea. She took her boarding boat in tow, and went to Lady Isle. There lifeboatmen rowed the boarding boat ashore.

They saw a fire on the island and found the two men. Their engine had broken down, and they had managed to get ashore. The boarding boat took them off, and the lifeboat brought them back, arriving at two o’clock next morning. The motor boat was high and dry on the rocks of the island, and there the life-boat had to leave it. - Rewards, £9 4s..