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SYDNEY, September 21, A woman with a sad mission arrived by the Sonoma to-day. By the same liner came, the body of Air. J. D. McFarlane, a solicitor, of Melbourne. The late Mr. 1 McEa shine lefl Australia recently to marry Miss Nellie (.aH .ban, an Australian gill, resident in California. He hod boon in the. United States only a few weeks when be became dangerously ill. Miss Elsie Callaghan, head, nurse of Franklin Hospital, San Fiam-iseo, a sister of Mbs Nellie Callaghan, volunteered for blood transfusion. Three times her blood was drawn ttpoii, but the surgeons wore unahlh to save the life of the Australian. lit (he lio|*i(‘ that she would he able In regain some of her IoM strength —the transfusion left her very weak—-the doctors recommended a sea. voyage, and Miss Callaghan elyvted to return to lie? native land by the liner conveying the remains of her sister’s lianee.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17154, 2 October 1926, Page 19
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