MAEREWHENUA.
(From our own correspondent.)
I send you a few hurried lines, and painful facts, concerning tbe sudden death o' a shareholder' in the Pioneer Water
Company, who died on the night of 20ch, inst., under peculiar circumstances. James Murray had been in the township during a portion of the week, and was returning home with his mate on Sunday evening. They left the township about seven in the evening, and got along right enough as • far as the Maerewhenua River, and had crossed the bridge, when Murray complained of being very bad, and could not go any further, and told his mate that he was dying. He feeling alarmed, at ouce proceeded to get assistance, and reported the matter to M'Donald the company's manager. M'Donald, in company with George "VYebb, (also a managing shareholder), hurried down, and found Murray, who was then alive. They raised him, and endeavored to get him home, but only managed to get him a few paces, when they let him rest again. A strange scene this, on that Sunday night, in the moonlight—these two men. and their dying mate, who had slaved with them for years," when it appeared that prosperity would never come, and now when all their hopes were fulfilled—he. was to die in the fulness x>f his strength, with no warning and no hint of his danger, and they did not know it. In a few moments they .again were about to try to take him home, but found that he was dead. Returning to'their huts, a stretcher was got; and, with more assistance, the body was taken to the township about one o'clock on Monday morning. Naturally, everyone was startled, and is anxious to know the cause of death. The manager of the company went to Oamaru to inform the authorities of the event. Murray had had a few nobblers when in the township, but as to cause of death no one knows. He was one of the' Pioneers of the field, and showed great perseverance and tenacity of purpose. He was an Irishman by birth, and like most of his countrymen, was genial and kind-hearted.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 304, 26 December 1874, Page 3
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356MAEREWHENUA. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 304, 26 December 1874, Page 3
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