THE 'HEROES' ROLL.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 220, 18 September 1888, Page 5

THE 'HEROES' ROLL.

The Colonial Secretary, Wellington, hag orwarded to His Worship the Mayor a bronze rhedal abd ytVo certificates' sent over, by y, the Royal Humane Society of Australasia in recognition of.-.;services rendered byy Auoklanders in saving life. The bronze me^dal is for Constable Luke McDonnell, of the water police, who on the. :31st May,, 1887, saved from drowning a man named .John = Briggs, who fell over..-the Queen-street Wharf. A ceitifici.te of. merit is presented to , William Smith for saving the life of ' ; Mrs Hardy,: , who, ib., d will be . remerbbered, \vas nearly drowned alongside the ' Queen-street Wharf.. She was in a cab which was. backed over the wharf ;at o the -jetty, alongside which the Rotomahana was lying. The other; certificate is presented to Thos. Scarrott,, who saved, the life of Joseph Young and NorahTuohy in Auckland Harbour, oh November 6th, 1886. They went Out in a ; dingy, which capsized, Scarrott succeeded in rescuing them in a flab-bottomed boat with only.one paddle. The medal and certificates will be presented at a meeting of the City Council. , : The Town Clerk wishes the three gentlemen named to forward to him their present .addresses.-. .-- , ':'. Appended tO each paper is a gazetted; notice ef the list Of -.Wards from'" this; Society to -Now Zealanders for: the years 1887; and 1888.',,,;■ The; names \ are as follows : Meremana, -Arthur Nield, Frederick A. H. O'Cbnnell, William Lewis Finlayson, Hbberb: Lynn, -John Goodhsillj William George, \ Kingston, Martin;■ Dudley Stagpole, James H. Carter, Luke McDpnnell,. Thomas Nestoni David Carbmill, Thomas Scarrott, William Collins j Thomas Edward Toneycliffe, Charles Thornton Stewart, Frederick"; Charles Smythy"man, Charles Grey, and James Cannon, ' A": stilly more noble list; is that of, the, names of those wbo, during 1887 and, 1888, , lost ..their lives .while, endeavouring to save the lives of others. One'of these, Jhhn McCutcheon, belonged to Dunedin. The following are claimediby Australia:—William Richard.Bullochi aged 18, Josiah Vaughan, and a hoy named Nield. :::;: ' '■ ' .