RACE AGAINST DEATH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 73, 17 March 1914, Page 7

RACE AGAINST DEATH.

... JIBE WAY OF THE NORTH. An incident that occurred in the Northern Territory of Australia is related by Df. Gilruth iii a report to the Minister for External Affairs. Frederick Bolton, a settler on the Daly River, was about to get into a canoe when he was accidentally shot through the lung by an aboriginal. The aboriginal sought Mr Love the aborigipes’ protector. Meanwhile the settler had. crawled to his home. Mr I mve with the aid'of the aboriginal, and using a sheet of galvanised iron as a stretcher, carried the settler down to the canoe. He managed to paddle five miles up the river to a landing, and at 5.30 p.rn. smarted for Brock’s Creek on horseback to se-» cure the services of a doctor. Travelling all night, with the exception of two hours’ rest, he covered the 70 miles by next morning. A telegram was sent to Darwin, and Dr. Holmes left on a motor tricycle at 0 o’clock in the evening, and reached Brock’s Creek at midnight. Shortly before 1 a.m. Constable John, Mr Love, and the doctor set out for the Daly. They travelled until 3 p.m., when the horses had to be rested. The journey was resumed, and continued until 3 a.m. next day. The whole party was thou exhausted. At G a.m., however, they were in the saddle, and the Daly was reached about midday, or 3G hours after leaving Brock’s Creek, but only to learn that the unfortunate man was dead.