GALLANT RESCUE FROM DROWNING AT TAUPIRI.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1635, 28 December 1882, Page 2

GALLANT RESCUE FROM DROWNING AT TAUPIRI.

An t event took place here on the afternoon of Monday, the 11th inst., which, though apparently unnoticed, deserves to be rescued from the oblivion to which it appears to have been consigned by the chief actors therein. As detailed to me, the facts are as follow :— Thomas T. A. White, a nephew of Mr T. H. White, architect, and a member of the Waikato Cavalry, has been for some months back ycsUUng with, and learning the trade as a cabinetmaker of Mr Richard Hansom. Mv Ransom is in vathor a delicate state of health, but feeling disposed for a swim on the afternoon in question, he plunged into the Waikato river, leaving his youthful friend Thomas (here called Peter) White on the bank. Very soon the current of the river, which sets in rather strong, brought Mr Ranson into difficulties which he was unable to surmount, although a slight adept In the art of swimming. Presently Ihe bubbling: cry Of a weak swimmer in his <igony reached Peter White's ears, who beheld his friend hopelessly struggling in the water, in which he had for the second time sunk. Hastily throwing off some of his garments, the intrepid youth (now in his '21st year), plunged into the stream, and by clint of considerable exertion suoceedpet in bringing the drowning man safe to the shorp, It was all but a caso, and a delay of two minutes, more or less, would have closed the mortal career of Mr Hicharti Ransom. This is rather an extended paragraph designed for the purpose of describing one of those events which are of such frequent occurrence in this colony. But when I add that this is che second occasion upon which this stripling has been privileged to save human life from drowning, it is right his pluck should be acknowledged, and that his courageous act should for the second cW e G9M c to * ue knowledge of the Humane Sq6U&?i Wl?B§ e W&l in the oltl country he already holds, awl fcb.%lj Palmatn, '/"/ merit it, fa at. I understand that Mr Ransom entertains strong .feelings of gratitude towards his preserver. — [Correspondent. ]