TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

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A SUDDEN DEATH

AVELLTNGTON November 12

f Everard AA r . Seaton, an old member [of the Thorndon Bowling Club, fell j dead on tiio green yesterday while playing for his club against Petone, in 'an inter-club competition. Ten mini utes earlier deceased lin'd partaken of ! afternoon tea. At the time of his j death Seaton with other members of | the rink, was walking across the J green to change ends with the skips i when he suddenly pitched forward on | his face. Doctors Ross and Pattio i were on the green and after examinn- ! tion pronounced life extinct. The ! deceased had suffered attacks of heart failure for some time. He was the senior partner in the firm of Seaton and Sladden. Civil. Engineers arid surveyors. Tie was 72 years of age. Tie left n widow, two sons and rnv daughter.

A. FATAL FALL. AUCKLAND, Nov. 12

Charles Barrett King, secretary of

ji the Auckland A Lister Bakers’ and j- Grocers’ Union, died in the hospital ! vpsterdav afternoon, as the result of a I fall from a tramcar. The base of the I skull was fractured.

j SHOCKING ACCIDENT j NAPIER, November 12 ■ A shocking accident 'occurred on I Bluff Hill to-day when Mrs. Mac--5 Gibbon, wife of a Danuevirke hank j manager either jumped nr slipped i over a 300 ft. precipice, on to llie hrea'kI water road. She had 'recently lost a j son at the front, and had been missing from her hotel since early in the mornj ing .

The body was reduced to a pulp, and death iof course, was ‘instantaneous. This is the second death at that point since the war commenced, the previous accident being about a year ago when a young girl, under the delusion of being pursued by the Germans, jumped over the cliff.