NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 142, 17 June 1891, Page 5

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.

Last Monday week, as a young lady (Miss Lavinia Gibbons) was walking , along the banks of the Thames River at the Juuction Mills, she perceived the body of a young child floating within three or four inches of the surface of the water. She at once took a long piece of 3 x 1 timber that happened to be near ab hand, and getting the end under the child, drew it carefully, for fear it would sink, to the bank. She then took hold of a bush with one hand and bent over the bank and seized the child with the other, bub the water was so far below fchat ehe strained herself and was unable either to lift the child out of the water or to recover her own position, and would probably have fallen in and had been drowned had not a man belonging to the mill fortunately come to her assistance. After considerable exertions the little boy, for such he proved, recovered, and seems none the worse for his very narrow escape, bub for a lorig time he had all the appearance of death. He is a son of Mr Albert E. Wight, who was staying at the mill with his wife, who i≤ a niece of Mr Gibbons, fche mill owner.