GALLANT RESCUE BY A BOY.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1090, 24 September 1883, Page 2

GALLANT RESCUE BY A BOY.

The Grey River Argus of Tuesday last contains the following interesting paragraph: —Presence of mind is rare enough at any time, even amongst men of mature years, to be worthy of special mention. How much more so in the case of a boy just into his teens. A youngster named Lodge, not turned his fourteenth year, yesterday acquitted himself so as to elict the admiration of all those who witnessed the prompt and cool way in which he rescued another' lad of about his own age from a watery grave. A boy named Baxter managed to fall from the Manawatn into the river. The little fellow seemed to >be quite dazed, and made no effort to swim. He had sunk beneath the surface once or twice, and seemed to be wquite lifeless. There were some mentet looking on,‘ bat while they were parently waiting for an ides, young ... Lodge swarmed down on one of the piles, and as the drowning boy floated on the surface again the little fellow got his toe under him and guided him closer to the wharf. As soon as Baxter’s hand touched Lodge’s foot he seemed to clutch it instinctively. In fact Lodge told him to hang on to his foot for his life. As he drew the boy in with his foot he reached his hand out, 1 clasping the pile with the other,. and caught Baxter by the arm. He held; him so for a minute Or two until the chief officer of the Mainapua ran down and relieved the little fellow of his' burden. There was a dash and coolness about the way the thing was done that; is not easily described. The only one who seemed to think nothing of it was young Lodge.