THREE SUDDEN DEATHS.
DUNEDINITES IN CHRISTCHURCH. PECULIAR COINCIDENCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. Immediately after he had made an investment on the tota'isator at Rlccarton yesterday, Donald McLennan, a fellmonger, residing at Maori Hill, Dunedin, was seen to put his hand to his heart and collapse. The cause was heart failure. Two other Dunedin men died suddenly in Christchurch yesterday evening—namely George Hill, a married man, and well known horse breeder, of Taleri, and Herbert Blackburn (50), of Musselburgh, it is believed from natural causes in eacfi case. A coir cldence was that both Hill and Blackburn died in their rooms at their respective hotels. An inquest will be held on Blackburn.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18406, 13 August 1931, Page 3
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