SUDDEN DEATH.
(Per Prbss Association.) Auckland, March 28. As the Mararoa neared the Auckland wharf yesterday, the chief officer, William John Wilson, died suddenly. He had been on watch from 4 to 8, and on coming off duty he was talking to Dr Walker and listening to a concert on board, wlien, he suddenly felt ill, and went to his cabin, where he was attended to by Ur Walker and Captain Chatfield, and made comfortable. On returning to his cabin half an hour afterwards, Dr Walker found Mr Wilson just breathing his last. The doctor will give a certificate that deceased died from tuberculosis and meningitis.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11951, 29 March 1894, Page 2
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