Bravery Rewarded.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 57, 9 February 1885, Page 4

Bravery Rewarded.

It will be ' lvrhenibered that some iiiVce theie \ya«a collision on the Auckland railway owing' to the ordin'a'iy traih liaving met m a tunnel a tnniitf ay* ' engine. Alter ■ enquiry re : wards and ]>unishments have been awardedi The engine-driver \Robert4 aon,iwho bravely stuck to his post Mini met the engine which; lie saw tearing. • fpr ward; towards; him m the ,duikness of the tunnel, has received^ • ihe - jminjneeni ;vewa.rd of £2 5k ! Thif, <hen,, is what the railway .aufhoritios consider a fitting recogni4 tion of an act oi bravery which saved ■ -Mi-.; • ... ■•.. ■ !)U ■'.:■ •■. .< w. T many lives, j -pn'seryed Government property ' woitli 'thousands of pounds. 'and relived thtirh from actions at law 'which wb'uldv'ney6n : d : all doubt, have *-letr"tlfenif m for heavy damages, Wp • '{Star) kriow^ hot who 'is responsihlb for it — whe{hejf~ Minister at the heajl ! of thfe Depai*ti*i«n6or bn'eof Ms suboi;- --* dinates 1 j 'but 'a more ■ scurvy act has \ never ! 1 \&&\\ > placed. on> record. For :irfuch.Jess r thivn B^obeitson did, meh ' iihave.rec^iKed thcYicMria Cross and ..thinks of li«ry,alt}';. . . .-Di^ver Bennett , the^driyerof the .^runaway engine, is r . tq be: no, longer employed, as * driver and ■fireman fn eonseq;ie.nce of 1 having' Jui.iijped l off,, leaving '}}> unattended. ;