A TERRIBLE OUTRAGE.
WANGANUI CHINAMAN MURDERED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, Last Night. For fourteen years "Ngan" was a well-known and respected market gardener in Wanganui. He was married to a Chinese woman and had three little children, the eldest of which was aged four. The family was highly esteomed by a considerable number of European friends. About six months ago they went on what was intended to be a three years' visit to China!: Letters were, revived in town announcing • their safe arrival;, at HbiigkOrig, and later on at Hankow. News-just to hand announces a terrible calamity. It appears that the family were living in a village thirteen miles from Canton, and that a band of marauder's attacked the house in the dead of night. "Ngan" For was disabled by a gunshot, and the robbers after ransacking the house, carried off two of the children. Mrs For pursued them to recover the children, but was shot, dying a few hours later.
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United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10272, 27 June 1911, Page 5
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168A TERRIBLE OUTRAGE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10272, 27 June 1911, Page 5
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