An Affecting story.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 211, 11 August 1883, Page 3

An Affecting story.

A MOTHKR'iS LOVE,

'{he death is announced of Mrs Cotterell, the widow oi Dr. dotterel!, who at one time had on» of the most ertensive practices m Nelson. Sad as most always he a death which leaves, as this has done, five young children orphans on the present occasion there m the surrounding circumstances (as reported m the Nelson Mail) something of a more than usnally painful and melancholy character. It will be remembered that a few weeks ago the loss of the ship Waitara was reported, among the drowned being a young boy, a son the deceased lady", who was then on his first voyage as an apprentice. Ihe shock administered by the news of the terrible catastrophe was practically the mother's death-blow. For a time (says ourcontemoorary)shewasfairly stunned but bravl* fhe hat tied against her ■orrow. and the wound seemed-but S-lVaeemed-tobehealing. The next nail, some two or three weeks after theweeiptofthenews of the wreck ' brought a letter from . the dead boy to his mourning mother I was a comfort to hear from the lit tie fellow all about his voyage home ; all the l.ttle .tories he had to tell; how he kept up his studies; bow (he crew mada a pet Of him because he was the smallest apprentice thoy had ever had on board; aiS all-such little incidents as would be fall of interest to a loving mother, it was aconifort to receive this, and yet there was an inea-pressible sadness about it,, and the mother's heart was wrung with anguish as she read the lines penned by* hand that ere she received ' them w«e y cold and dead. The sorrow wee greater than she could bear. Tne when, a week or two after receipt of her last message from her lost boy, fever set m, it found an easy victim, for her weakened frame waa totaliv unequal to resisting the attack. Six weeks ago on Saturday the w aitara and Hmunui came into collision, and , the yonng Nelson lad found his grave | m the Eng'ish Channel.' On fratnrday , • momma his heart-broken mother fol- j lowed him across .the border. I