ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17329, 18 November 1916, Page 14

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SUDDEN DEATH ON STEAMER. On the arrival of the Maori at W ellington from Lyttelton on Wednesday morning, Captain Manning reported to the police tlio death of a saloon pa seethe police the'death of a saloon passenger named Herbert- Nalder. •ii Deceased, who was a stationholdev at Lake Tekapo. in the Fairlio district, was single, thirty-nine years of age. and was on bis way to Auckland for the benefit of bis health. He. occupied cabin 33 with Mr Alfred YY'illiam Fielder, who stated that during the night Nalder had fits of coughing, but made no complaint. In the'morning Mr Fielder got up at about 7 o’clock, spoke to deceased, and told him lie would go out of the cabin in order that be might have it to himself. Deceased thanked him.', ■ At S o’clock, in answer to the bed, a steward, Leonard Rhodes, went- to the cabin and found deceased standing near the door with blood oozing from liis mouth. He was unable to speak, and as he appeared to be .falling Rhodes caught him and eased him 1 o the floor of the cabin. Deceased never moved or spoke again, and Dr Brockway. who saw the body soon afterwards, could only pronounce life to be extinct. , , Deceased, who bad an attack or. haemorrhage of the-lungs about twelve months ago. was accompanied by his sister, Mrs George Murray;