A FEILDING SENSATION.
Clerk of the Court Suicides. Fexeding, Yesterday. W. Matravers, clerk of the court here committed suicide this morning by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. No cause is assigned for the deed. Deceased had been in the service since 1877, and before that took part in the Maori war. He was sixty-one years of age. [Deceased was born in 1846, in Somerset, England, where he was educated. Arriving in # Auckland per ship British Trident, in 186 4, he served in the defence Force and afterwards in the Armed Constabulary. Leaving to join the Civil Service in 1877, he became clerk of the Maketu and Rotokino Courts, and, after a time as accountant in Wellington, was stationed for ten years as clerk of the Court, of Tauranga, and was subsequently at Feilding, Foxton, and Palmerston North.]
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3768, 22 June 1907, Page 3
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140A FEILDING SENSATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3768, 22 June 1907, Page 3
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