TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.
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A Brave Rescue. New Plymouth D comber 6 Two young laoii-s saved the life f a Lttle girl who f«-ll into the Lko in ti n ecrea'ion Grounds on -atarday Th It tie gin, who isab'ut 6 years old, w» .laying on the apri g oard near- the bathing house wneii she roil off into de p wa er. Miss Thompson, naught or of the Oohector < f Customs, and Miss Tod , her cousin, who were bathing near at hand saw the sco’dent and being ejp irt swimmers swam to the rescue of the child, who was struggl-ng, and seized H as it was going down theihird time Miss Thompson supported the child til Miss Todd reached her and the two managed to bring the child safely ashore. Miss Thompson is only fourteen years of age and Mi»s Todd about seventeen. The water whtte tha child fell in ts about 20 feet deep, Death of a Native Chief. Wellington, December 6.
Isaiah Pointer, a moat important chief of the Ngatiawa tribe, is dead, aged 69 Deceased who was a fi*m friend and >hy of th t early colonists was a c min of Te Whiti, and for many years a naiive As essor.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1425, 6 December 1886, Page 3
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207TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1425, 6 December 1886, Page 3
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