SUDDEN DEATHS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16761, 30 January 1918, Page 4

SUDDEN DEATHS.

""LDERLY WIDOWS END.

[BT telegraph.—press association*.]

DARGAVILLE, Tuesday. The sudden death occurred to-day of Mrs. | Wilhelmina Rehe&a Rasmussen, aged 59 ! years, widow of the late Carl Jorgen ; Rasmussen, who for many years was a | licensed victualler in Whangarei and I Hobson Counties. Mr?. Rasmussen was ! found lying dead on her bed at. five o'clock this afternoon. She had previously complained of being ill. Heart failure was the cause of her demise. The deceased was proprietress of Belmont boardinghouse. She leaves s:i sons, two of whom are at the front, and one daughter. A CASE AT HAMILTON. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] HAMILTON. Tuesday. I • A hotel porter named Francis William i Carter, v. ho has been employed at Raglan, j was found at Hamilton East on Sunday ■ afternoon, apparently suffering from a fit, ! and was taken to a boardingheuse. He 1 ! recovered, out later was again found on j the street suffering from another attack, . j and was taken to the hospital, where ha : died suddenly this morning. 1 i At an inquest held this afternoon a | verdict of death from heart failure "as ' I returned. 1