A Narrow Escape.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 203, 7 April 1905, Page 2

A Narrow Escape.

Miss Murray-Smith, of the Reliance Dental Go?, Auckland, who has been on a holiday visit to this district for tbe past few weeks, had a most exciting experience on Saturday, March 25th. She was returning from the Kawhia Carnival to|Opar&U, on horseback, accompanied by Miss Yells, and all went well until the ford across the Oparau River, near Gage’s, was reached. Here it was evident that the tide was very high r -bu L-there being no other way of reaching the other side of the stream the young ladies urged their horses into the water. The pony upon which Miss Murray-Smith was mounted, got off the ford, and disappeared in n> big hole, the rider being thrown into the water. She was unable to swim, and being aho handicapped by a heavy mackintosh which she was wearing, immediately sank. Oh coming to the surface for the third time, she was luckily caught by Mis.) Yells, who pluckily urged her horse into the swollen (stream, the current at this spot being very rapid. Miss Murray-Smith collapsed when she was brought to tbe bank, and het rescuer then lifted her on to the horse, waded the river, and immediately set off for Mr Crotty’s residence, where the young lady was put to bed, being in a state of great exhaustion. She has now quite recovered from the effects of the immersion, and is loud in her praises of tne heroic manner in which Miss Yells saved her from drowning, and the kindness of Mrs Grotty.