MARCH 5TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY.

The local fishing boat William and Mary, which had gone to fish off Les Minquiers, was six hours overdue, and at eleven at night the motor life-boat Howard D was launched to search for her. A light north-easterly wind was blowing and the sea was slight. The William and Mary, which had a crew of eight, had started to return with the other boats, but her engine had broken down, and, as her canvas was not sufficient to give her headway against the strong spring tides, she was in danger of being carried on to the outlying rocks to the east of the island. Her crew burnt flares of rags soaked in petrol, and at 1.45 next morning the life-boat found her, two miles south of Diamond Buoy, in St.

Aubins Bay. She towed her to St. Helier, arriving at 2.30 that morning. - Rewards, £21 19s. 6d..