A PAINFUL CASE.

Evening Star, Issue 4233, 20 September 1876, Page 4

A PAINFUL CASE.

! A girl named Margaret Conway, diving near the WilliarnstownJunction, Igave birth to an illegitimate child in a jtank on her father's premises. In jorder, apparently, to avoid disturbing {her"'parents, who fwere sleeping in an Adjoining room, and to escape deteo |tion, the girl left the house in heinightdress at 5 o'clock in the morning, land by some means "rgot into a deep iopen tank in the garden. The tank {was aboul ten feet or twelve feet bottom was covered,by about (two feet ofwater* A neighbor named i Mrs Simpson attracted |by cries pf " j Conway's houses and it'was discovered i that' thJTgird. M^aret r was f npti.in ( her jbed. ' The place'waV searched, and the !l3l4ea^le I[ tc^ k h^Ff^rents>wfib.ihowever,' had their susp Won'S 1 '%y l 4htiff | liajaastowrn, was sent for,' and he was i cpnvinced that the—girl-had; been rec,p§y VejWs#3.,fif^ f: S6<(r%iS 'of the taiafc was macteylwheatqthe; fcody .01 i a'miv ; ]y.born /child was ' j*P«ft rnpvt<Mh\ the child had bjai%Wa ?i%k<} ."^ c ?9ouuted )T ,, fw, f)^'". the in the water, -as the body was that of a infant, weighW&l a S d tt Meye^jjre^pect^^lo^la^ to.havftiiHvedi voiucunistances. The girl, who. }s ( only t; fdJtfi'teßti' years half old, refused to give any inform.ajion'aslfo'''fow^ ! the tank, saying " t fdoai't. kaovr " in reply :to all inquiries. An inquest on the body of the child was commenced at I Williamstown, foht'7 adjourned > fjftv tjT|" i2lst inst. The, airl Conway is alivff ;and is expected'to recover, although at j present in 'a--3angerc/us J StAfceiw-' Tek! 'graph,; : inst, fr(|: „~.

! *><%&*& meeting Bush, Southland, ion Monday evening to consider the political [situation the/ollowhig^r^ltltfohs'were carTied": 2 —"That ! this meeting entirely apiproves of the action of "his Honor the Superintendent >of Otago^in. f the. Assembly , in [tabling a resolution asking his' Excellency jthe Governor, Jo of Otago, with the view of ascertaining the most suitable form of goyernjment for Gtago." this meeting views Jwfoh alarm the action of the General Governjmcmt in trying to force on the people of ! Otago tire 'County system and double taxation entirely .against tHe wishes of the most of the people, of the ( " That this meeting has fun confide'noe in filr Macanj arew7-and*l3!esif en t£ r f eebrcTi?B • of the manly course taken by ouM-epresenta-tive, L)r Hodgkinsom in.the House of Kepresentatives." disapproves, of uf the. appointment .of, Sir Jnlius ' It is admitted that .'.' tie,','," meeting ' '-j, ery','' aparßely