A BRAVE WOMAN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1016, 12 October 1882, Page 3

A BRAVE WOMAN.

The Sydney Echo learns that a short time ago Mrs J. R. Campbell, a resident of Coonambee, distinguished herself by a deed of admirable bravery. Mrs Campbell was a passenger in a steamer from Hong Kong to one of the northern ports of Queensland, and one day a little boy about four years of age, to whom a lady was much attached, fell overboard, the accident occurring through a sudden lurch of the vessel. With the exception of Mrs Campbell and the man at the wheel all the passengers and crew were at dinner. Without waiting for a lifebuoy or divesting herself of any clothing and simply saying to the man at the wheel, ‘ Don’t tell the child’s mother,’ Mrs Campbell plunged into the water, swam to the boy, and held him up till both were rescued, the steamer having been promptly stopped, and a boat lowered. Neither the lady nor the boy were much worse for the immersien, and a thoughtful passenger having distracted the mother’s attention until the child was safe, the agonising scenes which usually accompanies such accident was avoided.