A VICTIM OF RACE HATRED,
The sudden death is announced at Colombo, of Mr W. A. Harvey, Paymaster H.N., secretary to R-ar- Admiral Fremantle, C tinmauder-in-Chief on the East Indies station. It appears that some six months a<*o Mr Harvey, while walking ashore at Zanzibir, was attacked and grievously wounded on the heart by a native who mistook him for a German officer. So violent was the assault thai", sifier Mr Harvey had been taken on board, his life was despaired of. Ha never really recovered. His h.ur turned white, and one l>y oat 1 his teeth i'e'il our. on the injured side of his head. His friends begged him to invalid home-, but he whs ud willing to leave bis post just when li is services were most urgently required during the transactions with Germany. He was only forty-one years old, and leavps a wife and f-iraily, to whom ir is hoped the Admiralty will, under the circumstances, sen their way to grata a sp:ci»l ponton. — ' World.'
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2263, 8 May 1891, Page 4
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