CHINESE WHO RETURNED HOME.
AND ."WHAT HAPPENED THERE,
(By Telegraph-Press Association.) Wanoanui, June 2G. , lor fourteen years, .Ngan For was a B-ell-known and respected market gardener in Wauganui. He was married to a Chinese woman, and had • threo little children (tho eldest aged four), and tho family were esteemed by many European friends here. About tix mouths ago they went on what was intruded to be a threo years' visit to China, and letters were received in town announcing their safe arrival at Hmig-Kong. and', later, at Hankow. News just to hand, however, announces a calamity. It appears that tho family were living in a village thir'een miles from Canton, and that a band of marauders attacked the house in the night, and N K an For van disabled by. a giiuslwt while the. robbers after ransacking tlie li->ust\ carried <iff the' two children. Mrs. For pursued them to Tccover tha children, but was shut down, dyin-3 a few hours later.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1164, 27 June 1911, Page 5
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161CHINESE WHO RETURNED HOME. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1164, 27 June 1911, Page 5
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