SUDDEN DEATH AT SYDENHAM.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14854, 20 December 1913, Page 8

SUDDEN DEATH AT SYDENHAM.

A single man named Richard Kemp, a labourer residing at 21 Hutchinson street, Sydenham, died suddenly about 4.35 p.m. yesterday. Since the latter end of October ho had been boarding with Mr Blyth at this address, and it is stated that ho had been drinking heavily. Yesterday afternoon, Mrs Blyth and two other women who were assisting her to remove, went into Kemp's bedroom, and found that he was ill. They asked if they should send for his sisters, but he replied in the negative. The women left him, but on returning a few minutes later, they found that he was dead. It is not known if he had been attended by a doctor. The body was taken to th*< morgue, where an inquest will be held at noon to-day.

(PRESS association tkleorams.) NEW PLYMOUTH, December 19. A child of Mr W. Li miner, manager of the Waitara Road Butter Factory, fell into a tub of scalding water this morning with fatal results.

WELLINGTON, December 19. While the scow Echo was coming to Wellington on Thursday afternoon, aa object which appeared to bo the body u_ a liiau -i-l.ieU in a Di_e_ «,i-»ai, tied round the waist with a rope, was passed about half a mile southward of Sinclair Head, and a mile off shore. As tho sea was rough and a strong wind was blowing, it was impossible to attempt to recover the body, on the head of which was a dark slouch hat pulled down over the face. The body was first seen by the ship's cook, who got such a fright that ho dropped a billy ho was carrying into the sea. WESTPORT, December 19. Mrs Gifford, wife of Mr A. Gifford, teacher of the secondary classes at the High School, was on route for Nelson this morning in a motor-car, when she collapsed and died within ten minutes after starting. Mr Gifford left yesterday overland for Nelson on his way to the Chess Congress at Auckland.