Meeting Her Father's Corpse.
(Per Press Association.) - Ltttelion, May 3. A man named Henry Eyder, a wharf laborer, expired suddenly at 11^40 a.m. to-day. He was engaged on a frozen meat van, loading sheep into the steamer 1 Aotea, ' when he suddenly fell forward and died fjinstaritly. . He was an industrious steady man, and leaves a wife and I children. His dinner wass usually taken to him; and a messenger was sent to 1 turn back the girl who- generally took it. On this occasion the child came down by another way, missed the messenger, and met the procession carrying the dead body of her father to the Casual Ward. A very pitiful scene followed, the child being almost heartbrpken,. ■..,...
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 258, 4 May 1895, Page 2
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