A very distressing occurrence took place recently at G-oldsborough. A little boy aged about two and a-half years, the son of Mr Malloy of the Inter-National Hotel, was missed from his home at about half-past six o'clock in the evening. On inquiries being made it was ascertained that nobody in the township had seen him since five o'clock. Becoming alarmed, Mr Malloy with a few friends, instituted a search, and about eight o'clock discovered the child floating in a waterhole, near the Police Camp, quite dead. Nothing to show how the child got into the waterhole was found, but the general surmise is that while playing about its edges he must have slipped in, and as nobody saw him fall in, or heard his screams, no assistance could be rendered, and the poor little fellow was drowned.
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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 392, 2 November 1868, Page 3
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