SUDDEN DEATH OP A STUDENT.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12772, 20 April 1910, Page 2

SUDDEN DEATH OP A STUDENT.

DECEASED AN OLD NELSON

COLLEGE BOY,

[United Pbess Association.]

Wellington, April 19. While out receiving instruction, with the Victoria College officers' training corps on Kelburne Park on Monday afternoon, Hedley Jordan, a student at the Teachers' Training College, was seized with a fainting fit, and he lost consciousness. He died ten hours later. Mr Jordan was about twentyone years of age, and he entered the Training College flast year. Prior to that he attended the Nelson Boys' College for some time. As a student at the Training College he also attended the lectures at Victoria College. He was this year to sit for the first section of his B. A. degree; Phy? sically he was very strong, while ne also gave promise of becoming a very good teacher. At the time of hi* collapse he was being instructed in signalling work. Ho was immediately re* moved to a private hospital, and was attended by two doctors, but he never recovered consciousness. ; The medical men gave a certificate that his death was due to the presence of a clot of Koon on the brain. No inquest is to be held.

Mr Jordan's parents, who live at Dovedale, in the Nelson district, arrived this morning and will have thebody conveyed to Nelson by to-night'a steamer. ~"

[Mr and Mrs Jordan are highly respected settlers, and they and the members of then- family will have the sympathy of their numerous friends.]