Hanlan's Narrow Escapse.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1456, 16 September 1885, Page 4

Hanlan's Narrow Escapse.

Reference has been rca 1 c very .briefly m cable messages to a narrow escapa from drbwing experienced by Edward Hanlan soon after his return to Canada. The St. Janie's Gazette of July 3rd gives the following particulars of the mishap : — " Newspapers received on Tuesday m Liverpool from Toronto, give particulars of an accident to. Edward Hanlan, the Canadian sculler which nearly trmainated fatally. Hanlan, who had recently returned from his Australian tour, was practising m. Toronto Bay on the 19th jilt. He was using a boat which bad only just come out of the builder's repairing' yard, when the craft suddenly collapsed. Strange to say, not a portion of it was left sufficient to sustain Hanlan m the water, and he was' compelled to swim for half a mile. By this time he was exhausted ; but his critical position was observed by those on bo u'd several vessels m the bay. A boat was put off from the schooner Nellie, but before it reached Hanlan he had sunk twice. Fortunately Captain Aikman, of the Nellie, who was m the boat, managed to grasp Hanlan before he went down, again. He was then taken into the boat an.l conveyed on shore. Hanlan soon recovered himself; but he complained of being very much numbed by the coldness of the water."