CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8] — Page 629

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the circumstances which I _

am about to detail.

2.

last, one

а

On the 30th of July

Lochu jumped from departing steamer, but failed to reach the wharf. He fell into the sen, then eddying strongly round the

round the piles of the wharf under the combined

action of the tide and the

paddles. Police

steamer's paddles.

Constable Khan Singh jumped

a

into the water, clothed as was, and succeeded in

saving

saving

life.

3.

the drowning man's

In the other case, Police

Constable Besent dingh, on the 21 instant, jumped into the Tytam Reservoir, and saved the life of a sick coolie, who, while gathering herbs on the hill side, had fallen into water of a depth of 45 feet, and would L'inevitably

have

perished but For Besent Singh's gallantry.

he

4.

MrBelilios, a wealthy

Merchant in this Colony, has

placed

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