New Use for a Brass Band
The " mission" of brass bands has been discovered at West Maitland. Eecently says the (Sydney Daily Telegraph) a resident in the district was savagely bitten on the finger by a black snake. Amputation by means of a tomahawk, the rough but prompt and generally effective remedy usually adopted by a couple of quick-witted bush boys in such an emergency, was not resorted to. The 'victim- was swiftly conveyed to Dr Pierces surgery, where & twelve-house struggle for life ensued. All the town appears to have been moved with sympathy. Throughout the night a crowd of people volunteered their services in the effort to keep the poor fellow awake and alive. It is doubtful however whether the dragging about to which he was subjected would have overcome the fatal stupor if the local brass band had not also come to the rescue. The band played,, says our correspondent,- in the moot "generous 1 way, and ultimately, the strenuous efforts of the doctor, i the crowd* and the brass band triumphed over the danger. But we are not surprised to learn that between the poison, the antidote, the dragging about, and the strains of the brass band, the unhappy man "requested to be allowed t<? die." Continuation of reading matter on 4sthpage
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 92, 14 January 1886, Page 3
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216New Use for a Brass Band Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 92, 14 January 1886, Page 3
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