THE LATE ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 686, 7 November 1876, Page 3

THE LATE ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.

Pun Mb Editor, —l wish jou had en.bcllulted jour itory to day of the little boy who wm to neurly diowned at the punt when coming from Hamilton Eust lltgh Sfhool yesterday, with a few words of caution and advice to the boyi them srlvs. I am sure other mothers than ii yself must feel a little nervous when we htarthat our hoyi are in the habit of waiting till the punt )<as started and then springing from the staging on to it, be•ldrt doing other dangerous tricks for the take of bravado, while crossing. It is not e>ery one may be so fortunate is Ihe little fellow was yesterday. It would be well, I think, Mr Editor, if the parson in charge of th« punt used a little authority and I retented, not only boyi, bnt even ndulti from acting in a dangerous and foolhardy mnr.ner. The last time I crotsed there -was a young lad on board, a'moit a man, who wis amusing himself ts the punt came up to th» appronch in reaching bit foot do*n oTtr the end of the punt, and he had an almost miraculous escape of hiiTingit crnthed between Ihe edge of the I tint and the itagiDg. Hoping these re* mirks may do good in calling attention to a matter which n«eds amendment. -I am, &c, A Mother. Hamilton, Not. 2 1876. [Not being a mother ourselves the idea did not strike us as it apoears to have done our fair coirespondent. Probably the is quite right, and the boys do need a little caution and alvice. We generally find, in the case of our own boys, hiweve>, that such aduce needs rubbing in with something stionger than printers ink. Ed W '!.]