RESCUED FROM A HORRIBLE DEATH.
[BY telegraph.—press ASSOCIATION.] Invercargill, Saturday. A young woman, named Darsbard, was walking on mud flats in Riverton harbour at low water, when she sank in mud up to her waist; her struggles made her sink deeper, and she cried out for help. Aid was fortunately forthcoming, but her rescue was only effected with great difficulty, and not till she had got ombedded to her armpits. ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9047, 7 May 1888, Page 5
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