An Untimely End.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 161, 13 June 1883, Page 3

An Untimely End.

MR FIRTH'S/ DEATH' i . •') (\.y.2 j^ri^i- cab.i jtJnder the impression that the late Mir Firth — the ypufig"tduris,t .w^o, re ; , ce|itr^iae&Ps'4eM^tl>^g6,^];^b]ng^ : under yery melancholy "circuTristfihces, i m; t^far_^orth_Jiad no friends -or ' agents m this country, the Government deemed it:we]£ta telegraph tohis relativee m England the sad news of his decease. A ; reply has been received requpsting.that full particulars mi^ht be torwarded, and this was- done by cable last night. The particulars are necesparily very j meagre, for but little is known about the occurrence. Mr Firth was swimming across a small wirm pool i « ben he suddenly threw up his hands and sank to the bottom. It is unlikely he could hare been seized with cramp i m that tepid water, and a more feasible theory is considered to be that there was a sudden and stifling uprush of carbonic acid gns from one of the many "blow-hole^' which exist m that locality. Such a jet striking him m the face -would probably produce the* Budden collapse which occurred^ ■.'.:.■ Mr: Fiith wasi only ' just of age, and came into. a. fiae property at his majority. ... . . „ . : .- ,