ABOUT A RAFT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 189, 19 January 1915, Page 8

ABOUT A RAFT.

xot fuom timo iirssiNr; endeavour. • I!y T. lr ,--vijpi t . —P.-,- Press /,ss..fiatioii. liiverrargill. Last Night. In la-l Tuesday's is.-ii K . of the Soutli- ' hind Tiiii!-* there appeared a "local" dc- ' scribing a plucky incident that liad been noted at Kivortun tlic previous dav when two little girls were playing on "a raft at (In- tourist camp on McCallniu's Taradr. near Howell's Point. The wind was blowing oil' tin- shore, and the raft gradually drifted to sea. A boy about fourteen yea,'.- of age perceiyed tlie !»'!»■• "■it!, which the yirls liad b,-en seizor, swam out to them when the r ft was several hundred yard.-, from (he -hoiv. and paeiiied theitt until lieb) nrrived in the >liap,. of a lounch winch cam., on the scene in rcsponee to an urgent t.-lej.hoii,. M,...a.ue. The bov and 7, W: ' ,v la!i ''» ■ l, < ''l H>e launch, and the raft left to the merey of the Tie' sipi'd of the store du!v ~,„!,. to) light on Saturday last, when a man dis, ••oj'-iv.! n raft that had been washed asle.iv at the back of l!l„l}' Hills, and I specula,,™ at Bbill' „-as rife as to I - I lyr I'.iideavo,,,. The wireless author- I He- at Vwanva wc,v communicated will, and ;>. trmth-ss endeavour was made to connect will, the Macpmrie Island y..1,..-t„f,..i li.c,Wnpti„ llw l:iel,l l as| been -upphed of tins ,-aft however ! pine- it heyond doubt that it is idenli- I <;" v.ill, the one that got loose at Kh-r----li'ii. and i, had evidently drifted in I :*;„; u ! d - ] ""• j H