An intersting but rather painful fact came out at the Albury Police Court the other day. An elderly lady, a Mrs Saintonge, applied for the admission of her grandchild, William Collingwood Buck, to the Sydney Orphan Asylum. The applicant stated that she was a cousin of Admiral Collingwood, who fought under Nelson at Trafalgar; she had two grandchildren whose parents were dead, and she was unable to give them support.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1014, 20 December 1881, Page 3
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77Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1014, 20 December 1881, Page 3
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