SUDDEN DEATHS

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 193, 15 August 1902, Page 4

SUDDEN DEATHS

Another old identity in the person of Mr. Thomas Kennedy, nephew of the late Dr. Kennedy, of Auckland, and related by marriage to Mr. J. C. Maeky, of Macky, Logan, Steen and Co., died suddenly i^. Karangahape-• road last night," Shortly after ,9 p.m. Mr. Kennedy was walking on the footpath opposite the Newton Post Office when he suddenly fell downj| and some' bystanders, going quickly* to his assistance, found that he,h&r expired. Messengers were despatched to the police station, and Sergeant Hendry was promptly on the scene. The sergeant communicated with Dr. Goldie, but the latter on arrival could only pronounce life to be extinct. The body was .removed to the mor* gue. Mr. Kennedy, vyho at the time of his death was about 65 years of ago, was a sing'eman, and was a veteran of the Maori War. Latterly he had been conducing a rent and debt collecting business, and boarded at Mrs. Purdie's house,, Crummer-road, Ponsonby. Abou£ five minutes past nine last night he left the house in question, and is said to have been bath tfhen and earlier in the evening in his usual health and spirits. OAMARU, this day. - Mrs. Shields, of Port Chalmers, who was found in an unconscious state in thecarriage of an express train yesterday afternoon and removed !o the hospital, died at ten o'clock last night without regaining consciousness. She had been in bad health some three months and was proceeding to Hinds, in Canterbury, accompanied by two small children, for a change.