THE HEROINE OF THE LOCH ARD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 660, 26 March 1879, Page 2

THE HEROINE OF THE LOCH ARD.

With regard to the statement of a New Zealand paper that Miss Carmichael, the young lady who was rescued from the wreck of the Loch Ard, had become insane, the Gastlemaine Representative writes :— " We are happy to be able to say that Miss Carmichael's only symptom of insanity is. that. she intends very shortly to be married. Of course this may be regarded as an indication of a severe attack of lunacy ; but unfortunately this phase of the complaint is so common that . it is hardly regarded with the serious commiseration to which the patient is entitled. Mrs. Hugh Gibson, of the Glenample Station who entertained MissiiOarmiohael after her wonderful rescue, received a long letter from the young lady by last mail, which she tells of her projected marriage to Captain Boulton Jones, whose • portrait she encloses. The happy man is very handsome, : and the bride-expectant writes as cheerfully and sanely as could be expected under the circumstances. We are indebted to by R. G. Gibson, of this town for the information, which will no doubt please many of our readers, inasmuch as they would grieve to learn that a young lady who had escaped, a watery grave almost miraculously had survived only to fall into .the living death of lunacy."