PUHOI : NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.
On Friday afternoon a young man named John Barker, in company with another, went to that part of the Puhoi River at the German settlement known as "The Rocks," for the purpose of bathing. He immediately divested himself of his clothes and jumped into the river, when incautiously wading too far ho stepped from off the rock into deep water. Being unable to swim, and a strong tide running at the time, he was carried into still deeper water. His companion Thom.is Early, who had remained on the bank, being attracted by the cries of the drowning man, immediately went to his assistance, and by the help of a long polo (he also being unable to awim), with ffreat difficulty succeeded in extricating Barker from hia perilous situation and pulled him to the bank, whore he lay for some time before consciousness was restored.— [Corre«. pondent.]
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIX, Issue 4794, 7 January 1873, Page 2
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