A Plucky Boy.
HEROIC ATTEMPT TO SAVE LIFE. The Takaka correspondent of a Nelson paper telegraphs as follows : — A sad case of drowning and a plucky . attempt at rescue occurred on Monday afternoon. All the rivers were in high flood, and several boys were playing on the bank of the Takaka river, hooking out driftwood, when the nine yearold son of Mrs Moulder, of Rototi, overbalanced himself and fell into the stream, which at this spot resembled a mill race. A mate of his named Charles Jacobsen, aged ia, immediately jumped into the rushing flood, and clutching hold of young Moulder, the two were swept down together. Jacobsen managed to grasp a willow tree and hold his drowning mate for a time, but eventually the current parted them, and Jacobsen had to struggle v ashore alone. The body of young Moulder has not been recovered. Jacobsen's pluck is much admired.
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Manawatu Herald, 9 February 1899, Page 3
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150A Plucky Boy. Manawatu Herald, 9 February 1899, Page 3
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