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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 987, 8 April 1871, Page 2

The Southern Cross, March 31, says : —Yesterday another awfully sudden death occurred at Newton, the victim being a woman named Eliza Trevarthen. It appears that the deceased had been on a visit to Mr Walters, at Papakura, and on returning, at half-pasc three o'clock in. the afternoon, she went into the shop of Mr Waddell, baker, in Karangahape Road. She was conversing with Mrs Waddell, and speaking of the long journey she had just made, when she suddenly fell back against the counter of the shop and expired. Constable Clarke, who was passing at the time, immediately went in search of a doctor, and met Dr Philson in Pitt street, who, on arriving at the shop, pronounced life to be extinct. The body was then removed to. the house of the deceased's brother-in-law in Edinburgh street-.. The deceased was 65 years of age, and had been a widow for 10 years. —An inquest was held on the 31st nit., and the following verdict returned : —" That Elizabeth Trevarthen died on the 30th March, 1871, by the visitation of God through serous apoplexy—the result of old age."

By the Napier this morning we have flies from Auckland to the Ist inst. Extracts will be found elsewhere. Our correspondent's letter is held over. Resident Magistrate's Court.— This niorqing Thomas Ellis, of Pukahu, was charged by Thomas Morrison, watchmaker, with having obtained from him a silver watch, value ,£6, by false pretences. It will be remembered that Mr Morrison was recently sued by the owner of the watch, who recovered <£6 from him in consequence of his having (as was alleged) delivered the article to an unauthorized person. The defendant this morning stated that he could piove that he had received a verbal authority from the owner to receive the watch. Mr Inspector Scully stated tlr.it the owner, having obtained his 'vatch, had now left the lown, although he had been warned that he would be required in this case-—Remanded lor six days, in order that the owner of the watch might be examined.