A Sad Fatality.
(Per Press Association.) Hob art, This Day. Kaye, lessee of Trefoil Island, with his wife, son and daughter, started for the mainland about six weeks ago, but when a little distance from the Island the boat was swamped and all were drowned in the presence of the remaining children on the Island. The fact was only discovered by men calling at the Island yesterday. A. fourteen-year old daughter had looked after her younger brothers and sisters. All the provisions were exhausted, but the boy killed a sheep, on which they were living when found.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 130, 30 November 1895, Page 2
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97A Sad Fatality. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 130, 30 November 1895, Page 2
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