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Walter James Bolton (13 August 1888 – 18 February 1957) was a New Zealand farmer who was found guilty of poisoning his wife. He is known as the last person to be executed in New Zealand before the abolition of capital punishment.
10 December 1949 Killed when the appliance they were riding, whilst responding to a shed fire, collided with a telegraph pole and capsized [6] Fireman George L. Oliver Auckland 10 December 1949 Killed when the appliance they were riding, whilst responding to a shed fire, collided with a telegraph pole and capsized [6] Station Officer Ernest Herring
place of death manner of death place of burial Q4679271: Adam Hunter: 1981-06-18 2025-02-05 Australian rules footballer Australian rules football player: Q131858725: Karshan Solanki: 1957 2025-02-04 Indian politician Q15412354: Jiří Čtvrtečka: 1942-12-02 2025-02-04 Czechoslovak canoeist (1942–2025) canoeist: Czechoslovakia: Prague ...
According to a contemporary newspaper account, [2] the body of the younger Phoebe Veitch was found on the Wanganui River beach on the morning of 27 February by Arthur Fitchett, a telegraph linesperson. Giving medical testimony, Dr Earle noted that the drowned child was the product of a cross-cultural relationship between persons of Chinese and ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The Wanganui computer was a Sperry mainframe computer built to hold records such as criminal convictions and car and gun licences. At the time it was deemed ground-breaking, with Minister of Police , Allan McCready , describing it as "probably the most significant crime-fighting weapon ever brought to bear against lawlessness in this country".
The Chronicle's rival from 1867 onward was The Evening Herald (later The Wanganui Herald), founded by John Ballance. The ownership of the two daily papers merged in the 1970s, and in 1986 the Herald became a free weekly, later renamed the Wanganui Midweek. [1] The Chronicle is currently Whanganui's only daily newspaper.
The Ryerson Index is an online index of death notices from Australian newspapers, past and present, compiled by the Sydney-based charity Ryerson Index Incorporated.The index database has in excess of 9 million records compiled from more than 470 newspapers and other sources across Australia.