A CHILD BURNT TO DEATH. Bravery of a Seven-Year Maori Boy.
Dargaville, August 18* Ni.ws has been received here from Mauniranui, Bluff, of the death of a native child by burning. Two brothers, aged 5 and 7 years, wore lettin a whare while the parents were absent in the bush. The clothes of the younger one caught firo from the embers in the wharo fireplace. The elder tried with a billy of tea to extinguish the flames, but was unsuccessful, and sodragged his younger brother down to a creek. While so doing; his own clothes caught iiro from his brother's clothes. He then ran to the creek a&d jumped in. He ran back to save his younger brother, bub found him burned to death. The elder brother is severely burned also.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 216, 20 August 1887, Page 1
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131A CHILD BURNT TO DEATH. Bravery of a Seven-Year Maori Boy. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 216, 20 August 1887, Page 1
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