WATER DIVINER.
ANZAC’S LIBEL ST IT. LONDON' Dec, 10. Stephen Kelly, a former Australian _ sap per, and a Discharged Soldiers’ candidate lor Lambeth in the December elections, hasbeen awarded £25 damages against the Brixton Free Press for libel in conned ion with-, his candidature. An interesting point was-revealed during the ’hearing,, of the case. , Kelly is. a tgilteii water diviner, and’discovered hundreds oi springs on tho Peninsula', including 32 at (rallijKili. lie was wounded in the .disastrous advance of .500 of the Light Horse, in which onlyi’three returned .upwounded. 1 _ General Hughes, aware'o! 'his-gift, came )o.Kiev’s stretcher, ambtold him that unless water was found in’ a wed; tin- surrender or death’ of the Aiv/.ac forces was inevitable. Kelly offered to find _ water and-.next day discovered a well yielding 2000 gallons hourly within a few yards ot headquarters.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1712, 31 December 1919, Page 6
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