CAPTAIN GALBRAITH.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11479, 12 January 1903, Page 5

CAPTAIN GALBRAITH.

Deep regret will he felt for the doaih of Captain Galbraith, head pilot at Lyttelton, which occtETed yeaterday afternoon. The deceased was widely known end greatly respected. The flags at the Port were lowered to half-miast when the news of his death was received.

The late Captain Galbraith was born in Arran, Scotland, on ihe 12th July, 1833, and went to sea at the age of fourteen, his fust ship being the James Bains. In 1857 and 1858 bo was in command of vessels trading between Singapore and the Moluccas. He first arrived in New Zealand in 1860, as chief officer of the ship Derwentwater, which came to DunedLu with emigrants. After several voyages to Canterbury he left the sea in 1863, and for five years was "in change of the quarantine station at Camp Bay, under the Canterbury P_winc_al Government. In 1868 "he again went, <to sea, and was in command of the Dancing Wave, Ocean Wave, and Joliva successively, vessels belonging to Messrs Wood and Cui-n__»g&am. In 1874 he was appointed pie_T__aßter and acting-deputy harbour manager at Lytteltou, during the absence oi Captain Gibson in England. When the old dredge and hoppeis arrived there in 1876, be took charge of them until they were put into working order. The same year he took up the duties of inward pilot, at Little Poit Cooper, which he relinquished in 1886 on his appo_nl_t__eujt to the positions of head pilot and master of the tug, held by 'him until his __&_h. Altogether, he was fcwenty-eig-_t y<(s.rs in the service of ihe, Harbour Board.

Captain Galbraith was married in 1859, and leaves a grown-up family of two sans and three daughter.!. Both of the eons and one.of the daughters are married. The eldest con » sn chai-ge of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's stevedoring at Port Chalmers and Dun-din, sod the younger is in the service of the New Zealand Shipping Company at Wellington. The funeral will take place on Tuesday. ,