CHILD NEARLY DROWNED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8274, 21 September 1888, Page 2

CHILD NEARLY DROWNED.

A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. Abopt noon to-day (Friday) a little boy named Cook, son o£ Mr U. Cock, wbo resides in the west end of tbe town, bar] a miraculous escape from drowning in the Man^notuku stream, near tbe Town Bolt. Tho child, in company with a sinter some 8 years of as[P, was returning from the Weßt lufanta 1 school, when the little boy, just übove a small bridge that spans the Btreiun in that locality, stooped down by the edge of tho water to pluck eonio flowers. While lunniug over the baok engaged in this, a stick whioh he grasped to steady himself broke, and hn was precipitated into the water — aevoral feet deep nt this placo. His sister, thoroughly terrified, saw him sink to the bottom, and then ran off to acquaint her parents, who live about 200 yards from the spot. Several neighbors and tbe parents hurried down on getting the alarm, when they found tho boy below tho bridge on tlm bank in a semi-conscious condition. It seems that ho had apparently been carried down ' y the cv eat under the bridge, and coming in coataot with a low portion of tbe bank bad caught bold of it and thus managed to draw himself out, ia a very exhausted condition. He was given some brandy, and other means were used to restore him to complete consciousness, which was effected in a little while.