SUDDEN DEATHS AT PALMERSTON NORTH.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 810, 9 September 1887, Page 29

SUDDEN DEATHS AT PALMERSTON NORTH.

(united press association.) Palmerston North, September 6. Three painfully sudden deaths occurred in Palmerston last night, and the fact has caused quite a sensation in town to-day. The first of these was Mr S. J. Poderin, a farmer, resident a mile or two out of Palmerston. Although he had been ailing for some time past he was fairly well yesterday, and was about the house when he was suddenly taken very ill, and notwithstanding medical aid died within an hour or two. He was a [well-known settler, and was much respected in the district At the same time a man named O’Brien, a bushfeller, stopping at Walsh’s boardinghouse, dropped down suddenly in the yard of the house without any warning, and expired. He had previously eaten a good tea, and was apparently in good health. J'He had only arrived in town yesterday from Ohau, where he had been working, and was going on to a bush section he owned in the Forty-Mile Bush. The third case was that of a man named James Smith, who had been ailing lately—for some time, and wasstoppingat a boardinghouse in town. He was about as usual last night, and when his room door was opened this morning he was found dead in bed. He was a stranger in town. In the two latter cases inquests will be held.