A MAORI HEROINE. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Thursday.
A lettkk from D'Urville's Ibland, dated 24th nit., gives particulars of an accident which occurred off there. A boat contain ing two Maoris, named Matthew Rurwitu .and Tepeni Turi, and a Maori girl about 14, named Bella Daniel, left one of the bays on the 21st to secure nikan palms On returning the boat swamped, and drifted seaward. Matthew not being a man of robust health, succumbed to the exposure that evening, and Tepeni, aftei 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 his body to the b,oat. All night the boat drifted seaward, but the turn of the tide and a change of wind sent it back to the place where the accident occurred, when, the cries of the girl were heard by the wife of Matthew, who put off in a small dingy and rescued the girl, who had been exposed eighteen hours.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2107, 9 January 1886, Page 2
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189A MAORI HEROINE. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Thursday. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2107, 9 January 1886, Page 2
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