LORD SEELY.
EARLY VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND.
NARROWLY ESCAPES DROWNING
(Special to the "Guardian.") WANGANUI, June 14. ' It may not be generally known that the Rt. Hon. Major-General J. E. B. Seelv recently raised to the Peerage, visited New Zealand as a young man and nearly lost his life when crossing the Maugawhero River. He is the author of several books, and in one of them, "Adventure," he relates the ■ He" came to New Zealand in, 1891 in. company with two fellow-Cambridge University students, Lord Burford and Mr T. Connolly, in the old Kaikoura. Arriving in Wanganui, they obtained horses and a native guide and rode up the Parapara (or Field's Track, as it was known then), to ride through the middle of the island. When crossing the Mangawhero River, young Seely's horse was swept away with him, and he was carried down under a ledge. Had it not been for his companions, % who lowered a rope over a rocky cliff and towed him upstream, lie would have been drowned. He and Mr Connolly were together during the Great War.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 210, 17 June 1933, Page 3
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