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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 249, 20 April 1912, Page 10

The week ending .March 23 proved finite exceptional for the Northern Territory in providing a heavy death-roll. Amongst the victims was Mrs. Kingston, tlie well-known proprietress of the Katherine Hotel. In connection with lier death, a stockman named Love lias made himself famous for a remarkable ride to l'ine ifYeok from Katherine and back again to Katherine, a distance of over liii) miles, to bring medical assistance and a nurse when the road was deemed absolutely closed by heavy floods. He arrived at Pine Creek in record time, travelling night and day. Arrived there he secured the services of Dr. Holmes, of the Aborigines Department, and .Mr. Frit'h, and set out back to Katherine, at which place he arrived with the party, also in record time. The ride is considered to have been a most remarkable feat of endurance and plnck. Every river had to be swum, and this at a time, when the mails and all other traffic were entirely suspended. The journey was covered in under three days. Love during this time had no sleep and little food.