A NEW ZEALANDER'S DEATH IN VICTORIA.
{Fbom Our Own Cob respondent.)
AUCKLAND, May 29. Latest Australian, files contain news of ■ the tragic death of a New Zealander. It \ appears that last week the body of a man named Arthur Simpson' was found lying face downwards in an irrigation channel near Kerang (Victoria). The police on searching the clothes found a letter apparently written by deceased giving f directions regarding the disposal of hia j effects and intimating that the body,
could be given to the doctors for dissecting if they so desired, and stating that he had been addicted to drink of late years, the reason for which might be aparent in a tumor or some atrophy. Other papers indicated that deceased was a chemist by profession and a recent arrival from Dunedin.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2985, 31 May 1911, Page 53
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133A NEW ZEALANDER'S DEATH IN VICTORIA. Otago Witness, Issue 2985, 31 May 1911, Page 53
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