AN EXPLANATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume X, Issue 2906, 22 May 1873, Page 6 (Supplement)

AN EXPLANATION.

To the Editor of the He RAID.

Sib —I am a settler iii the Kawakawa district. ' I was reading the Heeaid the other duy and I saw a small sketch of the flood here, where they say Mr. Williams, the manager, headed a small party, and rescued about thirty-nine or forty lives, which is incorrect. It is true he did what he could to save life. He went in a boat with two men, and got one family into the boat, and started to come back, but ho could not, as the boat was very Bmall, and the current very strong, so they tied the boat to a peaoh tree, and had to stop there until seven o'clock. This was between four and five o'clock in the morning, when Edward Charles Hansen, .'Roland Hansen, Edward Forbes, James Agnue, and Robert Naughton wont off in a flut-bot-tomed punt they got from Robert Goldie, and they got three families ashore, and then went back for Mr. Williams, and brought them away. Then they went for two more, who were the last. They all looked very miserable aud cold. Some of them wore on the tops of their houses, and some in trees. So this ends my story, and you will be able to state it better than I have, but I hope you will think it worth putting in the paper, as it is the truth. —T am, Ac., G-.L.0. Kawakawa, May 15, 1873.