GALLANT RESCUE.
A plucky rescue from drowning was cfl'ected yesterday afternoon by a young man named Thomas Macdonald. Ho was engaged in stacking timber at tho rear of the New Zealand Timber Company's Office on tho Customs-street West Reclamation, when ha heard a splash only a few yards distant. Proceeding to the edge, ho wa3 surprised tq sec a young woman and a child struggling in tho watyv, and without a momont'a hesitation, sprang in to their assistnnco. With some trouble, he succeeded in getting them safely ashore, tho woman being in a fainting condition. A large crowd collected, ondj i.ohtoratives having bwn t^pnUed, the' woman Ruon recovered. Sho "explained that'"it was not her fault, that the child fell in, and tha,t she .jumped in after it." I{ev inuna is said to bu Qdbcl^n uu'ii s>hp is bc.li^ved to bo a resident of Nelson-street.'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 4124, 22 September 1883, Page 2
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