Sad Drowning Case
:•-.:■ . . - — : ' ♦ . *=□: . : .MEfcßopßNßj, December 29.. On the forenoon o.f Christmas Day two boys, Edwin and Gordon, aged 8 and 10 years respectively, sons of Sergeant Waters, of Lallydale, were sailing boats in a clay hole full of water guts,ide the township, The side whiph h^d been underwasihed gave way, and one of the boys fell in. The other jumped in to save his brother, but , neither could, swim nor get out, and as the hole was about 20ft deep both the boys were drowned. A third brother ran off. and gave the alarm, but the nearest man was nearly a mile off. : Sergeant Waters was called out of the church, where services was going on, but on reaching the waterhole he found his sons dead.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 81, 7 January 1892, Page 3
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126Sad Drowning Case Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 81, 7 January 1892, Page 3
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