SUDDEN DEATH.
One of those startling occurrences by which we are forcibly reminded of how unstable a nature is our hold on life, and in the midst of enjoynient how near we are to death, took place last night, ■ in the Greyhound Hotel. An elderly man named Williams, well knoini about the town as a person who was always ready and willing to undertake light jobs, such as carrying c*ls and running errands, was standing in the bar of the above-named hotel, shortly after eleven o'clock, when he was observed to fall to the ground, without the slightest apparent cause. Those who went to his assistance found that life was extinct, —he -having evidently expired instantaneously. He had been subject;, it is said, to epileptic fits and paralysis. An inquest on the remains will be held in due course.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4405, 25 December 1875, Page 3
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