AUCKLAND. 7th September.

Evening Post, Volume XIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1876, Page 2

AUCKLAND. 7th September.

At the inquest on the woman who died suddenly at Parnell yesterday, the husband deposed that he last saw her alive at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. She was then lying down on the bed in her own room. He sat down beside her, when she caught hold of his left band, and said, " Isaac, I'm going to leave you." She died shortly afterwards without any apparent struggle. She is said to have been drinking for three or four weeks, night and day, generally rum and beer. She had nothing on the morning of her death, but had been raving during the night. The verdict of the jury was "Death from excessive drinking." The woman who fell into the water off the gangway of the ship Coromaudel at the wharf fractured two ribs, the gangway falling on her. She is taking legal proceedings against the captain. A woman was charged at the Police Court to-day with stealing a pound note from a child who was running a message. It was proved that the woman was a poor widow, struggling to support five children. The Magistrate took a favorable view of very damagiug evidence, and dismissed the case. '