Died of Starvation.
A pitiful story of evil fortune, suffering semi starvation, aud death, comes from Wellington. William Ward, a man with a wife and family of eight young children, lived in Cambridge Road. Ward had been out of employment, and bis family were suffering from want ef food. Ward, in a half famished state, walked out to Island Bay, got to some distance from the hotel and then lay down on the rocks and died, leaving a written paper saying, “ I am worn out by anxiety and privation.” Now that the man is dead, Wellington society is shocked, and efforts are being made to help the starving children. But the bard, ugly, fact remains, that a sober, decent, and industrious man, with a wife and eight young children to support, may struggle vainly to make a living in Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, and • having utterly failed, may lie down and die of starvation without a single band being held out to his aid.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1888, 24 September 1886, Page 2
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167Died of Starvation. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1888, 24 September 1886, Page 2
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