LOSS OF A CHILD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 26, 29 December 1883, Page 2

LOSS OF A CHILD.

(PUB UNips .FJi^^a^OClATlOV.) [jfvEEO^P^o^D|s.emper 28. An extraordinary^ajlof the loss of a child has occurred. here7 T On Christmas Day Mr Shepherd's ' (warehouseman at Messrs Outhrie and Cq.'s) j family and other friends went tJaJ&Ver* tbn Beach m traps "to; picnic The j b^eacli is a desqlate traok, backed liraad belt of moving sandhills; On returning it was fonnd-that Maud, aged four y6ars 6\d, a child of MrSaepheid'^ was •'missing. ' ; As there 'was '<'■&■ largiparty- ©f 'women atod;childveii r it was 1 necessary to drive- librae to Tnverbiw^ill with them. Mr* Shepherd andl orie n «lr' two iriends^eturflediio the arid with th.c aid of troo^eissefii^ned allday yesterday amorigrtjieiblinding sand-, drifts, without avail. No ; gfepa ; \^re. taken tc> (obtain t^e^ai^ of tlifi inhabit-,; ants, and those \yno heard of the affair were under th^eimuresawn the ' cliU^'had been found. This affefte^fefe^ it transpire'dTtliat' the "chlla EatT not" been seen7^a3s^^^w^l,- s Pj|.rties:; were sent out in^a^^'^h^ iE^iolt, : !M was then foimd^^^p[^hild uaObeen discovered this mfi^^^^n f thel^ge of a lagoon, about k^m^mti^ti-pM from fbe beach, ayd had^been take^gfiome the hou3e^of^^^'i KSa^leanitchcock, .who look no immediate steps tq aUfly:^hp;a^r v m; andttd stbji (fiieaia^cbj The cl\ild was mucb exhausted, yesterday being a ( very bleak iancj aqually day, and last night; the rain fell continu^usjy.Air Shepherd himself euflTevjeciiConsUer^ ably m the search, i bin cgfos being blood shot from the drifting; sand, The missing girl was, forty-four feQUwa without food or shelter,