CHINESE FAMILY’S FATE.
(Per Press Association.) Wanganui, June 26. For fourteen years Ngan For was a well-known and respected market gardener in Wanganui. He was married to a Chinese woman, and had throe little •children; the eldest aged four. Tho family were esteemed by a considerable number of European friends. About six months ago they wont on what was intended to he i: three years’ visit to China. Letters were received in town announcing their, safe arrival in Hongkong, and later at •-'Hankow. News just to hand announces that a terrible calamity lias befallen them. It appears that the family were living in a village thirteen miles from Canton, and that a hand of marauders attacked tho house in the dead of night. Ngan For was disabled by gunshot, and the robbers, after ransacking the house, carried off two of the children. Mrs. For pursued them to recover the children, hut was shot, dying a few hems later.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 107, 27 June 1911, Page 5
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