SUDDEN DEATHS.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 55, 8 March 1881, Page 2

SUDDEN DEATHS.

Mr. B. ling, butcher, Lambton Quay, expired at his residence suddenly last night. About 7 o'clock, not feeling verj well, he w-nt outside to get a breath of fresh air, when he fell down in a fit. Ho was conveyed nside, and Dr. Kemp was soon in attendance,

but deceased nover regained consciousness, and died shortly after 9 o'clock. Mr. Ling was one of the oldest settlers in Wellington, havuur arrived here in 1842. He had been very many years in business here, and was highly esteemed by a large section of the community for his kindly, unassuming and generous disposition. There are many persons ia the colony who are indebted to him for a start in life, and he has in a quiet and unostentatious manner done much to relieve the distress of numbers of his fellow creatures. Deceased was in his 62nd year. His funeral wUI-t&ke "place an Thursday. Henry Baker, an old and well-known sottler, was found dead "on the road at Horoldwi Valley yesterday. He was soon engaged in chopping wood about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon by one of the settlers, but when Mr. Thomaa Smith and the schoolmaster came np a few minutes later they found him lying-dead on the road. They pioked the body up, and had it oonveyedto Pahautanui, where an inquest will be held to-morrow. The deceased, who was 60 years of age, landed in New Zealand in February, 1840, per Duke of Roxburgh, and for a long time kept a butchering establishment on Lambton Quay, but he ultimately became reduced in circumstances, and had for the last seven years been in receipt of charitablo aid. He had a son and two daughters, one of the latter being at present resident in Wellington. The old man wae very much liked in the neighbourhood in which he so long resided. Although his allowance was only 26s per month, he had managed to savo £16, which sum was found In his pockets yesterday, and will be devoted to paying his funeral expensoa.