NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.
Yesterday afternoon Captain Alexander, mate of the barquentine Devonport, had a narrow escape of meeting with a watery grave at Norfchcote Wharf. It appears that he was over there in company with two friends, and while sitting on the wharf lost his balance and fill over backwards into the sea. One man got a ladder and endeavoured to paBB the end of it to the man struggling in the water. An alarm was raised which attracted the attention of the Brothers.-.Mc-, Kay, shipwrights, who wfre up on the. cliff.' They at once ran down to the wharf. ..r.One of them got into a boat belonging to the ship Opawa, lying at the wharf, with another, man, while Mr. George McKay, stripped, some of his clothing off and plunged into the sea to the aid of the drowning man, and .held: him up till the boat got alongside. < Captain Alexander was nearly gone, bis face t being almost black, but by judicious treatment he was brought round. It seems he struck one of the wharf stringers in falling. over, and got partially stunned, so that he was : . com-, paratively helpless. Constable Hutchinson was at North cote at the time, and rendered every assistance.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6937, 11 February 1884, Page 5
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