CASUALTIES.
A little girl named No la Prudence McClurg, aged one year and eight months, daughter of j\3i* Thomas McClurg, North Parade, Richmond, was drowned in the Estuary at Redcliffs yesterday morning. Unobserved bv her mother, she wandered to the water's edge and slipped.in, face downwards, and in this position was taken from the water 200 yards lower down the Estuary by two boys in a boat. Artificial respiration was tried for some time by members of the Sumner Life Saving Club, but without success. An inquest was held in the afternoon by Mr T. A. B. Bailey, Coroner, and a verdict of accidentally drowned returned. (press association telegram.) JNVERCARGILL, January I>. David Sutherland, a corporation employee, was found dead, ho apparently having cut his throat with a razor. It is said that ho had been worrying over the war, a brother having recently been killed at the front. He loaves a widow but no children. '
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16113, 18 January 1918, Page 5
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