A SAD AFFAIR.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 883, 8 December 1916, Page 10

A SAD AFFAIR.

BRAVE SOLDIER'S END. GALLANT DEED AT SEA. Press Atstciation. AUCKLAND, December. 7. Particulars of the circumstances in which Trooper K. A. Bayne, of the Wellington Mounlcds, lost his life were received on the arrival of the Ruahine. As the steamer was about L r >o miles from Pitcairn Island, on the evening of Saturday, November 5, a baby, Theodore Edward Austin, aged two years and 10 months, while alone in a cabin, crawled to a porthole, through which it fell into the sea. Bayne, who was leaning over the rail above the cabin, evidently saw the child fall for he at once jumped overboard to attempt a rescue. Illuminated buoys were thrown overboard, and the emergency lifeboat quickly launched, but a lengthy search failed to discover either the baby or its would-be rescuer. The place was infested by sharks, some, 10 feet long, following the lifeboat.