PLUCKY WOMEN RESCUERS.
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OHBISTOHtmCH, Sept. 16. . Alt iSumiier yesterday, a little girl, seven years tof age, was playing on tihe sandis wriitlh Ilier 'bro!t>her .and sister. She Was running along the beaoh near the pder and Oave Rock, and at a epdt where tihe water takes a sudden, dip she slipped >in over iher deplth. , Heir elder sister .wemb to her assistance, but, being unable to rescue'her, scrambled, out. -A-young lady, whose name is noit known, went' to It-he dbild's a&ilJS Lanoe and caught her after she ihad sunk twtioe', 'but got into diflicult'io3,;and>/h;ad:r to be assisited out. The .^liild .wqnld probably have 'been drowned ■!U[U^i|o;v.the;jpr-onipibitude of Missi M. Denn'iston, a daughter of Justice Denniston, A\iho plunged- into the waiter,- seized the ohi'ld, rind held-her up until Miss Mitchell canne to 'her help with a boiat-liook, and I the two were pulled 'asihbre.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLVII, Issue 12283, 17 September 1904, Page 5
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146PLUCKY WOMEN RESCUERS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLVII, Issue 12283, 17 September 1904, Page 5
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