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OCTOBER 12TH. - TOBERMORY, ISLE OF MULL. At 6.30 in the evening a telephone message was received from the local doctor asking the life-boat to take a seriously injured man to Oban. He was a woodman and had had his foot badly crushed while felling a large tree. It was a Saturday evening, and there would be no steamer sailing until Monday. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Sir Arthur Rose left her moorings at 7.35, took on board the injured man, and a nurse, and arrived at Oban at 10.30. The patient and nurse were landed. When the nurse returned the life-boat left for Tobermory and arrived at 2.30 next morning. - No expense to the Institution..