Sudden Deaths in PalmerSton

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 33, 6 September 1887, Page 2

Sudden Deaths in PalmerSton

:! --r.:^ ?n-. ,:...;.-•; , .. ; ,u -,yyAi fPEB UNITED PRKSB ASSOCIATION.! Palmebston, This Day. Three painfully sudden deaths secured in Palmerston laat riigiit, and the tact has caused quite a sensation inf the town ; -today. The first of these was S. J. Poderin, a well Jkuowfn "farmer residing a mile orWo otit of Palmerston, who, aU though he had beeu? ai|ing.fpr«some time pa-stfwarf airly well yesterday^ and was About ': the hou_e. r He was suddenly taken very ill and notwithstanding medical aid/died within ah hour or two.* He was a well-knowit^settler and much regpecfrd in the district. At about the Isai^i^ a h^nrnat-ied O'Brien, a bushfeller^stoppiak at Walsh's boarding* house* droppedl^down suddenly in the jr^Aot^^Bj house without any j^ing^jimlfexpired. He had just pre* a good tea, and was apparently in good health. He had only arrived in towtyrestorday.- frpm figm, whpto he ha* feen >#orkiagg and^s gm_tg%n to a bush semion-hSe* owned in the 40; Mile; Bush/ The^ third case was that of a man named James Smith, who had been ailing for some time, and was stopping at a boardinghonse in town. He was about as usual last night, and when his room door was opened this morning, he wits found dead in bed; Ho Wa's a strtnger in town* la ithe. two. latter : eases inquests will lie.hfl^d. ; '...,, ;