CASUALTIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 46, 7 February 1912, Page 3

CASUALTIES.

fPBR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DEATH ON THE ROTORUA. AVellington, Feb. 6. On January 3rd, during the voyage of the Rotorua, Robert Paul, aged 81, belonging to Invercargill, who was a second-saloon passenger from London, died of heart failure, and was buried at sea. SUDDEN DEATH ON THE STREET. Auckland, Feb. 6A man who had given his name as Flood when inquiring for a room at an agency died suddenly in the city to-day. The deceased was apparently about 50 to 55 years of age. FOUND DEAD IN BED. Christchurch, Feb. 6. A man named Thomas Heeligan, who had been living for the past two or three clays in a fireman’s batch near Gladstone pier at Lyttelton, was found dead in bed this morning. Heeligan, who had had a somewhat checkered career, had been employed as a trimmer on the ferry steamer Maori, but on Saturday night he complained of feeling unwell and did not go away in the vessel. He took his quarters at the batch, and just before retiring last night he told one of his mates that he was bad and vas given a nip of gin. He went to bed and evidently died in his sleep. His mate went to call him this morning, but getting no answer found Heeligan dead. SUICIDE ON THE ROTORUA. AVellington, Feb. 6. James G. Templeton, aged 23, a passenger from London by the Rotorua, cut his throat aboard that steamer this evening and died later in the hospital. The deceased and his parents were booked to the Bluff. They visited England for the Coronation, and while there young Templeton underwent an operation for appendicitis, and had been in indifferent health since.