AN ABANDONED INFANT.
« [Per Press Association.] WANGANUI, August 17. About six o'clock tLSs evening an 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 three o'clock, but did not take any notice, .thinking it , was a neighbour's child. As the cries continued, however, he made investigation, with the result that he found the child and took it to his wife, who is acting the part of the good Samaritan. The child is dressed in a long white gown, well wrapped in flannels and 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 the infant may have been de- | posited by someone who «»mt -by train.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9317, 18 August 1908, Page 4
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143AN ABANDONED INFANT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 9317, 18 August 1908, Page 4
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