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Grey River Argus, Issue 131, 13 November 1866, Page 2

, Death of JBoarU the Claud Hamilton". —An inquest was held on Saturday on the : .body of Richard Eagar-, aged sixty, years, who died on board the Claud Hamilton, at four a.m., on the morning of the 29th ult. It appears that the deceased, who < was a brother of the Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales/ and resident at had. been to ; > Sydney, where he had obtained the appointment of mail agent on board the Panama steamers'between Sydney and Wellington. He left Sydney on board the Claud Hamilton, to, •return to Wellington, on the 20th inst., and on Wednesday the 24th, was seized , with a* violent attack of sickness, imder winch he gradually sank until his" death, It transpired front, the evidence of Mr Sewell, the purser of the Claud Hamilton, who had known Mm. intimately for" some f\ time past, that he had long been in a state rf t)f .great debility, and suffered severely - from a complaint with which he had been £ afflicted for the last fifteen years. ; Every jj attention was shown him by Mr SewelJ, 1 / and by Captain Gordon Ponsonby, but lie 1 'refused to have any medical attendances when the steamer reached Hokitika, ezM? pressing his belief that lie would get ove» this attack, and reach Wellington safel™ At a later period, however, he stated thjm he knew he was dying, and tha^ he bjW made liis will. The jury immediately mi turned a verdict of " Died from n T ati»f caiise.s." — " Neleon'Exanmer.". . jH