A Boy Hero.

Manawatu Herald, 7 April 1894, Page 3

A Boy Hero.

An. English paper of February recordff^^toteWa li^ff^ot noticed having WjiiM-if' any of our papeTS\v~When a'hero is wanted in this B tuydy Anglo-Saxon race he is usually forthcoming ; and the arrival at Melbourne of the Glasgow four-masted ship Trafalgar from N^, York and Batavia has just (Jfeclqfled a gratifying case of heroism irfJßkiyouth.of.lS, one W. Shelton, a n^lve 0/ Sj^derland. During the voyage., the .captain, officers, and cook, and several seamen all died of Java fever, and the duly then devolved upon Shelton of navigating the vessel to Melbourne, which he did successfully. To make matters wdrse, three seamen had deserted at Batavia, while the third officer had obtftinednfs discharge there, so that the vessel from one cause and another was dangerously shortfiandjsd. Shelton, however, proved equal to the occasion . The youthful commander was just out of his indentures, and' had served his apprenticeship in the vessel which he waipajl<*d upon so suddenly to command r During, the fateful \ojrage Shelton was himself ill, but h& kept" &s. watch, and marked out the flhip^s 'position regularly. It is nojt often that heroes of this type are jnet with outside modern fiction, hut here is one which fond parents ban noi4 ( itp as an.example of courage ftnd faring io their hoys.