The following curious coincidence is related in the Sydney Bulletin .-—"Thirty years ago two sisters named M' Williams were drowned by the upsetting of a boat at a bend of the Yarra, opposite Studley Parlc. A third sister escaped. A few days a^o — 31et December, to be exact— two other young women, Eva M'Cartney and Ruby Wood, were | drowned by the upsetting of a boat at the same place. Aid Ruby Wood was a 1 daughter of tho Mise M' Williams who 1 was saved just there thirty years ago. j That bit of the Yarra had been waiting with its mouth open for the family since 1881."' i lTor bronchial cougbi take Woods* 1 GUe&t Ptppexwiab Cur* It M^-Adtt. (
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20, 24 January 1912, Page 3
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