A CHILD ABANDONED.
FOUND IN A COAL BOX.
WANGANUI, August 17.V About 6 o'clock this evening in infant apparently about three months old, was found in a coal box at the rear of an unoccupied house in Campbell street. A man. working in his garden heard cries about 3 o'clock, but did not take any notice, thinking it was a neighbour's child. As the cries continued, however, he made investigations, with the result that he found >the child and took it to his wife, who is acting the part of the igood Samaritan.
The child is dressed in a long whit© g-OTvn and is well -wrapped in flannels an<l a white shawl. It is healthy-looking and! well nourished. The house where the child was found is near St. John's Railway Station, and the police think that the infant may have been deposited by someone who- came by train.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 25
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148A CHILD ABANDONED. Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 25
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