SAD AFFAIR IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
A shooting fatihty la reported f'om a station near Temora (Ntw South Wales ) Mrs Boyle, wife of a bounds* y rider, had occasion to proceed to the post office, about a mile distant. She left her three children, eighteen months, six years, and twelve years of age, respectively at home. The children rone time afterwards set oat to meet her. They were passing by s tank when the baby tumbled In The eldest girl immediately rcshed into the task, grasped the baby, and held it above water, hot the brave child became entangled in some dead timber in the tack, and coold not pet clear. The other cbiid procured a long stick, ai d reached it oni to her sister, bat unhappily the stick was too short Seeing this the child dropped the stick, rnd ran for help to some selectors who lived two miles d st&nt. Shortly after, the poor mother returned to find her baby in the water, dead, and her eldest daughter drowned in the grasp cf dead timber at th*> bo*'ora of the tsnk.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1445, 31 December 1886, Page 3
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184SAD AFFAIR IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1445, 31 December 1886, Page 3
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