A LENGTHY SWIM.
A most extraordinary swimming feat (says tlio .Townsville Bulletin, a Queenslann paper), was accomplished by a sailor under the compulsion of undue excitement the other da}\ It appears that he showed his admiration for one of the young ladies promenading on the Strand in a manner more marked than polite, which behaviour was summarily and forcibly resented by her escort. Others took part in the attempt to inflict chastisement on the jovial tar, who, when the police appeared in the distance, immediately made for sea, and swam far out towards Magnetic. The police being determined that he should not escape, went round the creek for a boat ( when the sailor altered his course and turned in towards the jetty. Before the boat reached him he had passed the breakwater, and was within a few yards of the pilot boat shed when he was cap hired. The.man was heavily clothed at the time, and although he made one or two gallant but ineffectual attempts to elude his pursuers by diving, was brought .on shore, without even losing, bis hat. A crowd assembled on the beach, and watched the affair with great interest, odds being freely offered that the man would be monopolised by the sharks before the police had an opportunity of taking him.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 977, 29 December 1882, Page 2
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216A LENGTHY SWIM. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 977, 29 December 1882, Page 2
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