DREADFUL DEATH OF A CHILD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 305, 16 October 1880, Page 2

DREADFUL DEATH OF A CHILD.

| A little girl nine Josephine Flemine, met her death the Hobart Town **#§§§ f Gugust 29, under the circumstances :—" The chiUfj><ia{£|thet?yjj Hobart Town •« Mercury a number who attended a byX-1^ i Miss Rsynolds. The ■ • took her scholars for a' holiday thef ; ' waterworks. They reachedC'th«r3bp^: pointed spot, on the riae the watercourse ib placed, and a above the valve-house. - th**fr"> children were left by their teacher, ':y\j\ had specially cautioned gO:*i.i| near the troughing in whichfthe?'ijater'/' i,: ,.;; runs at a tremendous .speed she . :'" v prepared some tea for refreshraViifc jf The , "*p\ deceased, however, seems to have evaded :'-'i the bidding, and wandered over'to the- I*| stream. She sat on the edge of the" ;j sluice and dabbed her feet in the water, f; "| On attempting to rise her feet-were;..'7'f carried from under her, and she ws* > "; •] drawn into the current. In leg? time than it can be described the child was -=} swept into the valve hous -1 , and even '\-S? then the rushing waters did not let go. • *Tf their victim, for there being a large : H supply of water the overflow continued. jy,| on through the outlet, carrying the >-. ,| body, in which life must have -been „j | by this time extinct, along with itjrlt :=!-ff was finally desposited in the inlet of a•„ ?, large reservoir, the distance traversed -;i; ; ,"*» between there and the walve-house;,|jijf being about 200yds. Miss Reynolds,, made a courageous endeavour to get toK«jj the child. She scrambled into the pond but the water being up to her neck she was unable to reach the body, which was"; in a sort of whirlpool, caused by the;:j^H ; water falling into the inlet from a of 6ft. > A large Newfoundland tried its utmost to rescue the body. had attempted to seize the child she was carried into the valve-house but the slight hold which it got counteracted by the force of the water. : \& In the inlet also the animal swam out ; . ' but owing to the whirl of the water it..-' 4* could not get hold of the dead child, When the body was recovered it waa>h?£> terribly' cut and bruised?*' =■ :. ; !i;