Accident at Turua.

Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10456, 3 November 1904, Page 2

Accident at Turua.

(From our own Correspondent-)

On Sunday afternoon, ai five yen? old som of Mr W- M-cQuoid was playing with' his elder brother in a, boat | which, was moored to the rivor ba,nf?, when by some means the Vont got adrift- The boy endeavoured to jump to- tho bank, but the distance w;as t,oo great, so he clung 1 to tho gunwha'-o, and as there was; a. stron.g itida running' in he was .soon cia.rried out into the river- His brother gave the alarm land! byj thie .tiino the iboyVi faithor arrived, the boat- was nearly a, hundred yards! froim tho shore. Mr MeQiiioid, without waitiug iv divest, himKclf of his elo'thing, sprang into tho river, and swaiiit to tho boy's a^i«-tan-cie- Aif'tor a, lia.rd wvim hio *\w^ ceocled in overhauling the boat, and fpilafcijng liis lioim in it, but 'wto i.-o osh«,iisiJk.tl himself that he had to' bo helped into- tho 'UuTf, by Mr P. MeDiennoiit, who,- on swing: the acci-Ulen-t, :j)iu.t eff in amo-thor boat- Mr Mcl v luoid was loudly praised for his plucky action, in undertaking such a great risk 1, and; but for whose p-rewoiK'Sa of mind the aicieidomt, might have had a, more serious termination.