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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 583, 4 June 1868, Page 3

Till: Hot. E. ,T. Beck, the ilbh-p of N ev\ i,on h .ends t v: r<. hues :heroic incident lun.ished him from that eolonv :—-A poor hoy, whose name no one knows, Is..t we may hone that it is in the Book of i.lfv, found t;.iee iit tie children | who, like himself’, had ! oen washed ashore fro u one of the mmy wrecks, wandering ’ai.-t.g that drearv coast in tno driving sleet. They wvre 0.-'li’j bitterly, having been parted !V -m t aeir parents, and r.ot knowing a-hei her 1 tier were drowned or s rved. The poor lad took them to a sheltered spo f , iplucked moss for them, and made a soft 'but rode bed, and then taking oh !us coat ;to cover them, sal by them all the night done, soothing th dr terror until they fell ’asleep. In the w ■ ruing, leaving them still !sleeping, he wont in soared of the parents, siul to his great joy found them looking 'for their children, whom they had given jup for dead. He directed them where to 'find them, and then went on hum.lf to livid some place of .-heiter and refreshment. But when the parents were returning with their recovered little ones, they found their bravo preserver lying Quite dead upo-i lha snow, not far from where they parted from him. The long exposure in his exhausted state was too much for his strength, and having saved his iutJo charge —a stranger ' to them as they to him —he lay clown to die.