BRAVERY!

NZ Truth, Issue 87, 16 February 1907, Page 6

BRAVERY!

The. beautiful banks of the - -Avon were the scene t'other day of .one of those deeds of daring for which boys of the bulldog breed , are famed the wide world o'er. A party were pienicing near tlie Dailingtbn Bridge, when a tiny tot of some three years suddenly tried to walk across the river-^and fell m/ It.{was-;just herd the ber-ravery ' occurred. ■' A gallant cove named Cartmill , .without waiV ing to consider- the "danger to himself or to his best Sunday pants (if he did think of the latter^ he had nb option, lor there was a miscellany of femininity scattered around the banks) plunged vyrfco ■'■ the -stiPgiiifg: river and, amid the plaudits ,-, of the ad-miring-crowd, fetched the child ashore. What makes the noble deed the more meritorious is the fact that m the spot where the rescue \rasf effected the river is as much as eighteen inches deep— sometimes. It is a matter .for congratulation, that m this instance the 'eroic action of Mr Cartmttl.was not allowed to go ■■unrecognised. Both Christohurch papers gave publicity to this glorious instance of , sterling pluck, and each' gravely added that the 'ero .already holds the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia for saying life from drowning at Kaiapoi, some years ago. Perhaps if representations were made m the. pro- : per quarter the chivalrous G^rtmill might, now get the silver one. Perhaps 1 ■ .. ... .:...■-._.•