"WOMAN OVERBOARD."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 202, 20 May 1908, Page 5

"WOMAN OVERBOARD."

SHE DID NOT LIKE PUBLICITY.: (BY TELEGRAM.—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) 1 Auckland, May 19. While endeavouring to board the ferry steamer Kestrel, as the boat was leaving tho Quay Street jetty for Devonport at 8.30 last evening, an elderly woman fell into ' the' water,' and would probably have been drowned but for the prompt action taken by the. Ferry Company's employees. The signal had been given for tho boat to start, and it had just commenced to move when the woman came along. Sho ran to tho edgo of tho wharf, and a young man grasped her hands, but she stopped short and fell into the water; tho sudden jerk causing tho young fellow to loso his hold. Tho cry of " woman overboard!" was immediately raised, and Captain J. G. Poolo promptly gave the order, " Full steam astern. .

In tho meanwhile another omployoo of tho company, a young man named Robert Hamilton, had witnessed tho accident, and lie jumped into tho water, and held the woman up until a number of passengers in the boat, which had been promptly stopped and remained alongside," pulled the two up on to tho lower deck. The woman was noiio tho ivorse for. her sudden- immersion, and treated the occurrence in a light mannor. Several attempts were niado to ascertain her identity, but sho refused to divulgo her namo even to a constable, who chanced to bo on tho boat, as sho " did not 'ike publicitv." She then proceeded on her jp.urney to Deypjuywt,

ANSWER? TO CORRESPONDENTS. "Inquirer, ■ Pahiatua."—Carriers in ..this city ar'o entitled to chargo not "more thniiis. for any "weight up to Scwt. any distanco up to, half a. mile. The distance you Moiition is less than, half a mile.' Double firo ' chargeable before 8 a.m. arid after 7 p.m..'., "lt.C."—Eccpiycd. "$ '" ,