CASUALTIES.
♦ FOUND DEAD. Mrs Mary Ramsby, aged 80, wife of Mr William Ramsby, York street, Opawa, was found dead at about 0.2U p.m. yesterday on the floor of the Kitchen by her son "William, on his return from work. Tho old lady, who was apparently in good healtii at lunch time, had evidently dropped dead while cleaning a stove. An inquest will be held at the residence at 11.SO to-day. (press association telegrams.) LEVIN, December 6. A farmer named James Egginton, a single man aged sixty-six, was found by his brother drowned at Heatherlea on -Lis return from a sale yesterday. The deceased was subject to fits, and apparently bad been to a creek to gather watercress for fowls, when he. had a seizure and fell into the water. AUCKLAND, December 6. 6. H. Broad, aged seventy, who returned from Sydney by the Makura yesterday, collapsed on the Auckland bowlinz green, and died yesterday evening. He had been treated for a weak heart.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17631, 7 December 1922, Page 9
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