The Brisbane Courier, Thursday 6 April 1911.
A PATHETIC INCIDENT.
Many pathetic incidents can be recorded
as a result of the calamity connected with
the loss of the Yongala. A husband laments
in Cairns the death of his wife, waits and
watches for the arrival of the newspaper,
and anxiously scans the face of his employer,
looking for a gleam of hope. The man is
Yarry Linedale, an aboriginal employed
by Mr. A. Murray. Yarry's wife Mary, is a full
blooded aboriginal. She was Mrs. Murray's
nurse girl, and was returning with them from
the Blue Mountains in the Yongala. Yarry and
Mary are old residents of the Port Douglas
and Cairns districts, and have been several
years with Mr. and Mrs. Murray, to whom as
well as to the children, both were devotedly
attached. Mary went to her death with her
mistress. Yarry waits and weeps at home.
He is only an aboriginal-true, but who will
gauge the measure of his grief ?
Nobody would consider this politically-correct these days, Andrew. But what a poignant story!
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