REAL HEROISM.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1552, 23 September 1912, Page 4

REAL HEROISM.

MAIMED COMUADE AND WILD

(By Telcgraph.-Spcclal Carrcsnondjn-l.) Wanjanul, September 21. The Wnvorley correspondent of the "Herald" tolls a striking story of the heroism and fortitude with which the ■annals of life in the bush abound. On Ihursday last a young man named Jerry. Payne was bushfelling on Mr. James blmslio s property beyond Mntaimonnn. some distance, inland from Waverley, when the tree which' he was at work on kicked back, breaking his thigh in two places and also a couple of ribs, besides inflicting internal injuries. He lay unconscious tor a time, tut, as soon as he came to, the plucky fellow crnwlcd up the faco of, the hill to where Mr. Elmslic was working. The latter immediately started off tor nelp, and, after dispatching a man to Waverley for medical assistance, went back to Payne, accompanied -by Hurli Elinslie aud Joseph. Groshiiiski. Relieving each other, in turn, these three got the injured man to their whare, though it took them eight hours to do it. The weather at the time was awful, but, undeterred by the difiicnilties. they improvised a strotcher, and again set out through inky darkness, a howling wind, and torrents of heavy rain, through ravines nnd over almost undoscornib)o. bridle tracks. At one stage they took three hours to do three miles, but, at last, at threo o'clock in the morning, the bravo fellows reached the house of Mr. Ross, a settlor, and, half, an hour later, Dr. Harvey, of Waverley, who had set out through the nwful night, iminodiately on being summoned, arrived, nnd rendered medical aid. The aml.ulance was tlien procured from Waverley, and the sufferer reached the Patea Hospital late on Friday night. During the whole thirty hours, from the time of the necident till the arrival at the Hospital, Payne never flinched, bearing his suil'erings with heroic fortitude, and his cheerful bravery, under agonising pain, is now n general tlicnio of admiration. No less than that also is felt for his males and lor the doctor. ■