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South Canterbury Times, Issue 4979, 11 April 1889, Page 4

Lord Sherbrook, better known as Robert Lowe, the English statesman, is now worth something like £2.C00,000, although he began life as a college tutor, with no other capital than brains. He made all his money by judicious investment in Australian lands. An act of heroism is related by The Queen, of Mrs Sarah Cogan, a young married lady of 19, living at Hull, Massachusaotts. When a number of seamen were rescued at Hull from a stranded vessel an attempt was made to reach them by firing the Hull gun ; but the powder was damp and the gun did not go off. Mrs Cogan was the only person present whose band was small enough to go into the barrel of the gun to remove the damp powder which had failed to explode after the lighted fuse had been applied. At the risk of losing her life, she thrust in her arm and removed the damp powder, thereby enabling the gun to do its work, with the result of saying some 15 lives.