NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.
While some young men were indulging in: a bath at tho City Baths today, at two o'clock, a cry was raised "A boy in tho. water," and a young gentleman named. Guilding, who was having a shower;bath, hearing the cry, sprang into the.'water .and caught hold of him just as jei was disappearing, and brought him.: safely to the'stops, where he gave him incharge of the bath-keeper, who* at once tput dry clothes on him, he appearing only a little worse for hi? bath, having swallowed a good deal of saltwater. It was" found afterwards that he was a nephew of Mr Strong's, and had just gone in to have a look at the swimmers and accidentally' fallen in. - * i
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4523, 27 November 1884, Page 2
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124NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING. Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4523, 27 November 1884, Page 2
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