A Sad Occurrence.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 38, 10 January 1883, Page 3

A Sad Occurrence.

[Wanganui Herald.]

Hews of a most heart-rending occurenee reaches us from Mokoia, a few miles beyond Manutahi, whereby Mrs Ring, wife of the late manager on Mr Geo. Bayly's estate, was suddenly deprived of both her husband and son by drowning.in a pond near the house on Saturday afternoon. From the surrounding circumstances it is evident that the little boy, who was 6 or 7 yeareofage, had been m the habit of bathing m the pond m question ,and had gone out to bathe as usual. His father was at that time working m the garden a little distance off. Mrs King missed her son who bed been along time away, and she became alarmed. She went to the pond, and seeing the. boy's clothes lying there realised the sad truth that the little fellow had been drowned. She then obtained the assistance of Mr Bably, who dived to the bottom of the pond and brought up to the terrible grief of the poor woman, the dead body of her husband. Mr Bayly returned to the bottom of the pond to discover the body 'of the boy. It seems that the husband must have been attracted by the little fellow's cries and rushed to Ms aid r but m the attempt to save the life of his son had lost his own. The sad occurence had cast quite a gloom over the neighbourhood, and it is one of the most' painful known m the district, for years.