HEROISM OF A MAORI GIRL.
(United Prkss Association),
Wellington, This day. A letter from Durville Island, dated the 24th lilt., gives particulars of a fatal accident which occurred off there. A boat containing two Maori men named Matthew Purukuaud Tepeni Turianda Maori girl about fourteen named Bella Daniel loft one of the bays on the 21st to secure nikau palms. On returning, the boat swamped and . drifted seaward, Matthew not being a man of robust health, succumbed to exposure that evening, ani Tepeni, after securing the body to ..the boat, intimated his intention not to survive his friend, He then sprang into the sea, The girl jumped in after him and succeeded in getting him to the boat, but he was too exhausted to recover, The girl lashed the body to the boat. All night the boat drifted seaward, but the turn of the tide and the change of the wind sent it back to the place where the accident had occurred, when the cries of the girl were heard by the wife of Matthew, who put off in a Binall dingy and rescued the girl, who had been eighteen hours exposed.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2187, 7 January 1886, Page 2
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192HEROISM OF A MAORI GIRL. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2187, 7 January 1886, Page 2
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