THE ST. PAUL WRECK.
BRAVE NATIVE BOY,
. f {United Pbebs Association.) (Received 4 **!!.!) ami.) Sydney, March 28. Sydney survivor of the St. Paul gives a pathetic description of the bravery of a native boy. When be found it impossible to lower a boat, the Captain handed the child to the bqjy .who j heroically attempted to fulyj .fijTiis trust. He .was* afterwards, seen in the water, with the child clasped in his battling{¥jth the waves. Then he.vhfclosU'sigbt- of having given ~iSls life, igther than desert the child. Mrs Carter’s 'husband was a mining chemist in New Caledonia. * Slnppihg men consider' o 'that the Captgin of the St. Paul hi}d very little knowledge of the locality. The rock should be lighted. It was the same spot where the Waipara struck uif d9o9t 'V 'r■:
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 83, 28 March 1914, Page 6
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133THE ST. PAUL WRECK. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 83, 28 March 1914, Page 6
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