EVENING POST SUBSCRIPTIONLIST.
The following additional sums have been received at the Evening Post 'publishing office in aid of the sufferers by the Hawkes Bay floods : — Amount acknowledged, £242' 4s; J.S., 8s; E.M., £1 Is; W.M., 2s 6d; Dr. Albert Martin, £3 3s ; per J. H. Powell and CVs list, Shannon, £4 5s 6d. Total to date, £251 4s.
A movement h being promoted by Inspector Emerson, of Napier, to collect funds from the members of the Police Force in the colony for the maintenance of the children of Sergeant O'Donovan and Constable Stephenson, who were drowned in the late disastrous flood!). All these unfortunate children are quite young, and will not be able to earn their own living for many years to como. In the case of Sergeant O'Donovan's children the calamity is intensified by the addition of another domestic affliction, which Drastically renders them orphans. Inspector Emerson's efforts should meet with a hearty response. He was trying to tell them tho story, It was broken by coughs and by spits, And the points of it came very slowly, By starts, as it wore, and by fits, And they said, " You should take something lor 16, Somotliing that is wholesome and pure." And ho said, " I'll be all right to-morrow, For I'm taking Woods'* Great Peppermint Curi," —j£»VT (
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Evening Post, Volume LIII, Issue 114, 15 May 1897, Page 6
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