A GRUESOME DISCOVERY.
SUNK IN TBE HARBOUR IN A BOX,
This torenoom. while two small boysbrothers — navned Gordon and Frederick Dignan, of Lower Nelson-street, were fishing undor tli6 Hobson-street Wharf they noticed a box near to bhem. A line was thrown over and it was pulled oub of tho -water. _ Ib was encased in brawn paper and biod with common twine. Tho lads broke open the package and found tha body of a female child, which had evidently been in the water lor übtmb three days. The gruesome remains were removed to the morgue, whore they now lie awaiting the inquest.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 278, 23 November 1893, Page 5
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101A GRUESOME DISCOVERY. Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 278, 23 November 1893, Page 5
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