Sudden Death on Board the Mararoa.
♦ PRESS ASSOCIATION). Auckland, March 27. As the Mararoa neared Auckland wharf, the chief officer, Wm. John Wilson, died suddenly. He had been on watch from 4 to 8, and on coming o2 duty he was talking to Dr Walker and listening to a concert oo board when he suddenly felt ill, and went to his cabin whore lie was attended to by Dr Walker and Cap. tain Chatfield, and made comfortable On returning to his cabin half an hour afterwards, Dr Walker found Mr Wilson just breathing his last. The doctor will give a certificate that deceased died from tuberculosis and meningitis.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 273, 28 March 1894, Page 3
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108Sudden Death on Board the Mararoa. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 273, 28 March 1894, Page 3
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