A Plucky Act.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 209, 9 August 1883, Page 2

A Plucky Act.

♦ On Friday afternoon last (says the Tapanui Courier) a most gallant deed was done by scholars attending tha Waipahi school, and the young gjrt WOo is the principal actor m v tha scene is deserving of the Royal Humane Society's medal. Soon after school dosed on the day named, Mary Ann Williams aged 11, and her brother, aged 13, were wending their way homewards— the former crossing the bridge, and her brother (owing to an injury to his foot) riding. The river was swollen and the current strong, and whtn the horse reached the middle of the stream he swerved, throwing his rider, whose foot hung m the stirrup, and the horse im- « mediately commenced to drag the yousb, who was hanging head downward m tbe water. The young lad's sister, who witnessed the accident, 'hesifafed not a moment, but sprang m the water up to her neck, caught the horse arid led him towards the bank. A. schoolmate then gallantly came to her assistance, ami with his pocket-knife severed the stirrup, leather, and the almost drowned boy was. released from his" dangerous . position little the worse m other respects for hia untimely bath . Had it not baen for the," pluck and promptitude displayed by the 1 ./, lad's sister a few minutes would hay* settled his fate j and Mary Williams deserves a small niche m the temple of fame that Britishers erect, the world - over to commemorate acts like this nova described, '. " ■ -.■ W- ■■*