SUDDEN DEATH AT PANMURE.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 256, 31 October 1887, Page 8

SUDDEN DEATH AT PANMURE.

Mr Thos. Cawkwei,-, an old and highly esteemed settler, and one of tho longest residents ab Panmurc, died very suddenly in that village on Saturday afternoon. He had been engaged all day with his ordinary farm duties, and was apparently in good health. In the afternoon he was engaged in unharnessing a horse, when he suddenly fell to tho ground, and expired a few minutes later. In tho meantime a messago had been despatched to Otahuhu for Dr. Bews. Tho cause of death is supposed to bo heart disease, from which complaint tho deceased had suffered for some time past.' Ab tho time of the unfortunate occurrence Mrs Cawkwell was absent ab Remuera, whither she had gone to visit her brobher Mr John \Vallace,who was then at tho pointof death. Mr Wallace died ab 1 o'clock, and as may well be imagined Mrs Cawkwell received a severe shock to her already overtaxed feeling when on returning homo she found her husband dead. The lato Mr Cawkwell was a nativo of Yorkshire, and was born in 1817. Ho arrived in New Zealand, in the ship Mandarin, in 1843, and immediately commenced farming operations at WesbTamaki, ab firsb in partnership wibh Mr VV. I. Taylor, and afberwards on his own account. Ho was highly respected on account of his sterling honesty and integrity. He leaves a widow and twolve children.