FATALITIES.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12390, 4 November 1908, Page 3

FATALITIES.

SUDDEN DEATH OF;A GLEKGY- '.■ '■-.-.• ; MAN. : '-- : ;r .-;:;:■- --fUNiTED Press Association.] Auckland, Nov. 3. The .Key. Wm. Gillies, Presbyterian Minister of Tauranga, expired suddenly on the Te .- /Awamut.u .railway platform after the ' arrival^ of : the Auckland express yesterday. lie was travelling via tue- Main Trunk line to attend the Presbyterian Conference at Dunedin, accompanied by bis wife; oil arrival at Te Awmutu he left the oar and went to the refresnimnt room, a few yards distant, in order to get' a cup of tea f?r Mrs Gillies. On reaching tbe room he ivasseen to foil. Dr Wohlmann, who was t ravelling in the same train, was in a ttehdance immediately, . but he could oniy prouounce life extinct. The cause of death was.heart failure. The deceased has been in exceUent healthup to the^time of his ;death.: ; '.•';-•.■' - . ".'.•■. '.'::f-^.. X.- : .-::