Woman’S Brave

Action.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Rabaul, June 27.

RECENTLY, Mrs. T. W. Bayliss, of Bulolo, the wife of the Native Labour Superintendent for the Bu lolo Gold Dredging Co., Ltd., was walk ing along the bank of the Bulolo River, accompanied by a native servant, when the native was bitten on the foot by a death adder.

The native was badly bitten and, in pulling the snake off his foot, broke a fang, which remained in the wound.

Without hesitation, Mrs. Bayliss, who had neither knife nor snake-bite outfit with her, tied a ligature on the boy’s leg and sucked the poison out of the wound.

The treatment was successful and the native has now completely re covered.

Great credit is due to Mrs. Bayliss for her prompt action, as most people would have hestitated before scarifying the snake-bite wound on the foot of a native, thereby probably running undue risks of disease, in addition to the usual risk under such circumstances.