THE NEWS FROM POVERTY BAY.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 99, 23 November 1868, Page 283

THE NEWS FROM POVERTY BAY.

The intelligence of the almost miraculous escape of Mrs Wilson and her little son from the hands of the assassins at Poverty Bay, -which readied. [Rapier shortly after we had gone to press on Thursday last, was felt almost as strongly as though it had been a resurrection from the dead. In fact it seems scarcely credible that, suffering from seven wounds, of which two appears to be of a most severe character, inflicted by the wretches that murdered her husband and children almost before her eyes, she could be able to support the awful trials, mental and physical, to which for days she was subjected, as she must have felt herself to be dying in the bush, cut off from all that attention and assistance which might avail to save her life. Under such circumstances her discovery by her eldest child—himself believed to be dead—must have appeared to her as a special interposition of Providence on her behalf for without the simple aid he was able to afford her it seems hard' to conceive the possibility of her'surviving her terrible troubles. Even yet, as we hear, her condition is one of danger ; but we trust that the steps taken by the Government to remove her to Napier, and attend to her comfort, will lead to her restoration to health.