A SENSATIONAL VOYAGE.
ARRIVAL OF PAPAROA. [Per Press Association.] Wellington, June 2. On Saturday afternoon, while the steamer Paparoa was approaching Wellingon, a passenger named James H. Fish, 63, who wa3 proceeding ,tc join his sons in Auckland, committed suicide by jumping overboard. A boat was quickly launched, but the body was not recovered. Two other deaths occurred on the voyage. William Milbourne, 50, a seaman, fell from the roof of the officers' house. He had his skull fractured, and died within two hours. George Le Sneur, 17, a passenger, who had been suffering from melancholia, died from heart failure.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 24, 2 June 1913, Page 5
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100A SENSATIONAL VOYAGE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 24, 2 June 1913, Page 5
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