A Plucky Rescue.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 3, Issue 92, 9 December 1892, Page 3

A Plucky Rescue.

A case in which a Maori child, four years old, effected the rescue of another Native child, about five years of age, from the Cam River, near Kaiapoi, deserves (says the Christchurch Press) special mention, if not also recognition by the Royal Humane Society of Australasia. The two children were on the steep bank of the river when by some mischance the elder one slipped down the bank and into about 9ft or 10ft of water, being in imminent danger of drowning. The younger child, with great presence of mind, proceeded a little way along the bank for a large whitebait net which wasjust about as-much as its strength could drag to the spot and put it in the water. The ■drowning child was caught in the net and pulled in to the bank, when the long handle of the net suddenly .broke. The plucky child, however, seizing some flax or a turf of grass on the bank, heed to that with one hand and with the other pulled the half drowned one’s head above water, and held on till its calls for help were heard. Persons who have seen the place of the accident say that the escape from drowning and the rescue are little short of marvellous. The father of both children is Hihepa Horomona.