Sad Fatality.

Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10501, 17 December 1903, Page 4

Sad Fatality.

By Telegraph. —Own CorrespondentWiAIHI,, Decenitber 16.

The .news ol a sad drowning accident at Waitaiwheta come into Waihi last evening. Mr •and Mira Bowse, residents of that locality, between i arid 5 o'clock in the afternoon, learned! through their little son^ aged five or six years, that he could not find! his sister 1, a little dot, aged! four yfaatrls. Iti appear® that thie little children had been playing, about near tihe hiomeatead and wandered through a small piece of intervening bush 'between the house and 1 Waitawhetal Creek, and it was here that the bay last sigjht of bis little sisterThe children were last seen aibout 4 jm'dook- 'Seaitoh vfm immiediately instituted, with the result that tlie body was found' some little distance down* the week fnomi tihe point where fhe child! was supposed' to hawa got into it. ■It is suVaiised that the dhiM had been standing on ai stone in shallow water, and slipped, and was washed down the freshet. Much, sympathy is felb in the oomniiunity for the :bereaived! parents. Ato inquest, before Mr Max D. King, Coroner, is being lield at tho parents' residence thisi afternoon.