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Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1926, Page 3

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BRAVEST DEED OF THE YEAR. LONDON, Feb. 1 6. Tho Royal Humane Society baa awarded the Stanhope Gold Medal for the bravest deed of the year to Duncan L. Sottter, a seaman, of Grimsby, who has already received the society’s silver medal for the same deed. "There was never any doubt as to which action of the kind merited this award,” it was stated after the meeting yesterday, “and the court had not the least difficulty in selecting Mr So liter for the honour.” On May 10th., when the steam trawler "Monona, was off land, with ball" a gale blowing and heavy cross-seas running, the mate, John M. Leo, was washed j overboard. Two life-buoys were thrown ovcrlxaird to him, but he failed to reach either of them, and he was seen to give up and turn face downwards in the water. Sou ter threw off his heavy boots and. plunging overboard, secured one of the lifebuoys, which lie look to Lee, supporting him until the vessel was able to throw a line, by which both men were eventually got on hoard. The captain stated that if the first attempt to throw a line had been unsuccessful, it would have been impossible, owing to tbe wind and heavy seas, for a second attempt to have been in time to effect a rescue. When got on hoard Leo was unconscious, and Soutcr collapsed on vouching the deck. 10 EGGS. PARIS, Feb. 8. Soldier Jones, the Canadian I;V-i.ler in whom is cent red British hopes of avenging the defeat inflicted upon Phil Scott by tho Basque wood culler, Paulino Uzin-udim at Billion, Spain, last year, is tuning up to concert pilch lor Lis meeting with the Spaniard at Cirque tie- Paris on Tuesday.

He is hard at work at an old-world Normandy village near Vernon, bis sparring partners being the French heavyweight Marouget. and Charlie Woodman, the Battersea middleweight. Paulino developed his great natural strength h,v using the woodman’s axe upon the fir trees of the Pyrenees. Soldier Jones's muscles were tempered like hands of steel in the wide-spread-ing forests of Quebec, where Jones ran awav from school to become a lumber jack.

.limes rises at daybreak, drinks a glass of tepid water, and then cl imlis the precipitous hiliisdes. W hen he returns his breakfast is generally 12 softboiled eggs, laid by the liens oil the farm, and if he feels particularly "peckish” be will eat 1 I or even Ifi. Raw eggs follow before training, and at night, he sometimes fancies two pounds of beef steak. Jones probably is the hotter boxer, just, as Phil Scott showed himself at Bilbao, hut. quite apart from the progress which Paulino may naturally lie assumed to have made since last year, tho Canadian appears likely to find himself faced with, the toughest opponent of his career. HEROIC NURSE LONDON. F.-b. fi. Dr F. ,1. Waldo, the South" ark coroner, belli an inquest yesterday on Edith Beatrice llivette, aged 51, a certificated nurse, of Bromley, who died last I’hursday in Guy’s Hospital from bloodpoisoning contracted while nursing a patient. Mr Henry Adrien Drouin. her brother-in-law. stated that early in January she went to Broekenhurst to nurse a. little girl who was suffering from aseptic throat. Miss Rivetle hail to apply hot fomentations and burned her left wrist. A doctor told her that she had poisoned the blister and that she must, be caretul. Miss Rivolle insisted on going on with her work because the little girl was so ill. Her patient bad now recovered. Dr William Francis Roper. house surgeon at. Guy’s Hospital, said the .cause of death was general blood-pois-oning. Dr Waldo: This poor woman must have been very ill while nursing the child. Exceedingly ill. and she was very plucky. Bhc was that sort ol woman. Sho soon is to have lost hor own hh.* for the sake of a little child ?—Yes. It she had conic, to the hospital for earlier treatments there would have been great hopes of saving her.' In recording a verdict of accidental death, l)r Waldo said he did not think the public, realised what risks were run bv doctors and nurses.