A BRAVE BOY.
Ngapsra has produced another candidate for the Humane Society’s medal. On Saturday, September 25tb, five children, the eldest of whom was eight years old, were playing by the creek that runs through the township when a little girl, Annie Crutch, who was on a visit to the township with her mother, fell into the water. With admirable presence of mind a little boy, aged seven years and nine months (William Stiehbury, son of the station master), set to work to extricate the unfortunate girl from her perilous posisition. He managed to catch her by the logs, and was drawing her up on to the bank, when she commenced to struggle, got free from his grasp, and sank. He then, with the help of a railway sleeper, managed to reach to her, and after some difficulty succeeded in landing her safely. This is not the first time ho has done the same thing, having saved his own sister drowning about two years ago. We (Oamaru “ Mail ”) may proudly say that this district is becoming prolific in Humane Society’s medallists, but there never was a more worthy candidate than the little “Trojan” of only seven years and nine months.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2059, 29 September 1880, Page 3
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200A BRAVE BOY. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2059, 29 September 1880, Page 3
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