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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 43, 13 February 1885, Page 7

Young and feeble mothers with frail children will both become strong by the use of Hop Bitters. Read. A few weeks since, at the Armagh Protestant Young Men's Association a local J. P. was in the chair, and a paper -«n "Irish Politics " was read by a local solicitor of high standing, in which he advocated Home Rule in its broadest aspect. He also expresses satisfaction at the disestablishment of the Church ; and in the midst of rabid Orangeism his ideas were concurred in by a majority of the meeting. On the night of Nov. 11, Patrick Gill, day labourer, of the lockhouse, Lisconnor, County Leitrim, rescued at the imminent peril of his own life an old woman who, missing her way in the darkness, fell into the canal opposite Gill's door. The descent from the embankment from which the woman fell to the surface of the water is about thirteen feet. Gill hearing the screams of the woman, and suspecting their cause, rushed in the direction whence the sounds proceeded. With admirable presence of mind he let himself down oy the ruins of what was once a flood-gate, which spanned the canal over a weir a little io the right of the lockhouse. Having descended sufficiently low to ascertain on which side of the weir his aid was needed, Gill jumpe 1 into the water, caught hold of the poor woman, and gallantly bearing her through the seething foam, swam with her down the canal until he reached a part of the embankment low enough to admit of his drawing her on land. Alone, unassisted and unavailingly crying for help, Gill performed this heroic and hazardous feat. Surely such bra-ve conduct will not be allowed to go unrewarded.