A NARROW ESCAPE.
(feom our manaia correspondent.)
From the Kahui Road conies news of an escape from drowning which was little short of miraculous. Mrs Knowles was drawing water from a well, when the wooden covering gave way, and she fell in. The well was only nine feet deep to the surface of the water, and Mrs Knowles was kept afloat by the kerosene tin which had been doing duty as a bucket. During the two hours she was in the well (her husband and sons were away from home), Mrs Enowles, by utilising the timber which had fallen in with her, made strenuous efforts to extricate herself from her dangerous position, but without avail. Eventually, when hope was leaving her, a young man named Warden, who had bsen attracted by her cries for help, arrived, and she was released.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7046, 6 October 1900, Page 2
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140A NARROW ESCAPE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7046, 6 October 1900, Page 2
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