SUDDEN DEATH.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3970, 13 May 1870, Page 3

SUDDEN DEATH.

I Another sudden death occurred between one and two o'clock yesterday morning. Although the death at last waa sudden, it was fortunately not altogether unexpected. Mr. Charles Purdy, formerly a shipwright, but who for several years has been conducting the repairs going on on Queen-street Wharf, was on Friday last taken seriously ill, so that he was unable to attend to his usual work. Dr. Kenderdine was called in, and had been attending him every day since, and found the man suffering from advanced disease of the Jieart, for which he had been treated in the Provincial Hospital for some five or six weeks about eighteen months ago. The doctor prescribed the usual remedies in such cases, but with no hope that they would have the power to effect a permanent or even partial cure. On Wednesday last deceased felt so much better that he was able to take a short walk on Queen-street Wharf, and, on returning to his home in West Queen- street, again went to bed. About midnight on Wednesday he showed symptoms of getting worse, and Dr. Lee was aent for. The wife also sent for Dr. Hooper, of Hobson-street. He arrived about twenty minutes past one o'clock yesterday morning, only to find the man dead. - From deceased's appearance Dr. Hooper expressed the opinion that he had died of disease of the heart. On Sergeant-Major Morrison reporting the death to Dr. Kenderdine, he at once grante I a certificate of the cause of death. Deceased leaves a widow and three children. He was g, man in the prime of life, being about 38 years of age. For the last ten years he has been a member of the Auckland Naval , Volunteers, and had served with that corps ; Ana' wherever any work Attended with danger was to be performed he was always foremost, and not nnfreqtiently volunteered on such occasions. He waa- generally respected, not only by, the members of the corps ,he belonged' to, but by his .fellow workmen, and by those who worked under hia direction on Qnesn-street Wharf. . Captain Guilding, of the Naval Brigade,, has invited the captains of the various rifle yolunteer companies to join in giving their deceased comrade a funeral with military honours^ This wist has been conceded, , and to-day at three o'clock the volunteers' will Assemble in front of the Stair Hotelj in Albert-street, to accompany the remains of their deceased' comrade to their list restingjblace,' !t •