OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 62, 6 December 1907, Page 9

OBITUARY.

— r~ — ♦ — • Mr.' Martin Luman, formerly signalman a(i Beacon Hill, and for over twenty years at Mount Victoria, died on Wednesday afternoon, after boing a sufferer for some seven months past, as the result of an accident caused by being blown down a bank at the signal station. Tie was one of the oldest servants of the Harbour Board, and in the days when sailing vessels were more numerous than steamers, it was he who kept watch and ward through many a wild night, ready to give the blue light signal to the pilot staff, which then, operated from Worser Bay. .Mr. Luman arrived in Now Zealand in the early sixties, and' after, a short spell-on the. West Coast: he settled, in Wellington, whore ho had remained ever since. Ho was 75 years of ago, and leaves a widow and three married , daughters. .. The Harbour Hoard's (lag was llown at half-mast yesterday, out of respect to; tho deceased's memory. .' • '■ Wo regret to record the death at Mother Mary Joseph Aubert's Home, Buckle Street,' of Veteran William Dormer Dolaney. Tho' deceased, who was nfty-soven years of ago, entered the First Waikato Regiment as bugler, and subsequently served as bugler and private in tho old Armed Constabulary Force ■ The lato veteran was present at soveral engagements during the Waikato campaign. ■ For tho last four years he has" been an inmate of Mother Mary Joseph Aubert's Homo. Tho deceased will ho accorded a military funeral to-day, the firing-party to pai , - ado ■ at the Homo,' Bucklo Street, at 10.45' a.m. ' • . '