CONSPICUOUS' BRAVERY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 195, 17 August 1912, Page 2

CONSPICUOUS BRAVERY.

AN HEROIC RESCUE.

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■ . v WAIROA, Aug. 16. An instance of bravery on the part •of a county roadman has just beeja made known/after the recovery of a mate now in the Wairoa hospital. _ On the 7ih inst., two men named* Daniel Murphy and Timothy Hirlihy, were engaged in widening a cutting on the Waikari Island road, when a slip comprising 50 yards of earth and Boulders swept Murphy down nearly three hundred feet into the Waikari River. Hirlihy, who was working above his mate, jumped from the cuttma:, skidding down the whole distanoa and landing eight yards oufc in the river, which was fairly flooded at the tune. He rescued JMurphy in a state of unconscionsness,'and carried nim out, and then collapsed:. Murphy was taken to the hospital suffering from a- broken jaw, severe bruises, and shock. He is now recovering. '■•,-■ ■•■■■..•-•