OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 991, 5 December 1910, Page 9

OBITUARY.

ME. SAMUEL CAEKOLE. Many in Wellington and elsewhere in New Zealand will, near with profound regrot of the death at a late honr on Saturday night of Mr. Samuel Carroll, tho odtagenarian secretary of tho Wellington Chamber of Commerce, and editor and proprietor of the "Trade ■_ Review," probably the oldest commercial paper in New Zealand. Mt. Can-oil was a gentleman of tho highest business attainments and commercial probity, ever courteous and amiable, and thoroughly conscientious in anything ho took in hand. He was of a retiring disposition,, and though he -always kept pace with current events and local doings, and never participated in tho public life of tho city. Mr. Carroll, who was born in London in 1527, was tho son of Mr. Samuel Cartoll, a Mincing Lano broker, and with him ho 1 6erved many years, gaining a sound business and commercial training in the best of schools. Having a desire to see something of the world, ho went out to Batavia and., Manila in 1851, to represent the firm of Echolefield, Doering and Co., of Liverpool and Glasgow, and remained in tho Philippines for nearly flvo years, when his father's death recalled him to London. It is of interest to recall that on the voyage out to the East, instead of making the passage-in an East Indianian round tho Capo of Good Hope, Mr. Carroll voyaged via tho Mediterranean, and tho then famous overland route across the Egyptian desert from Cairo to • Suez. On his way Home on board the P. and 0. paddle steamer Alma, he was wrecked on one of tho Harnish Group —just a mound of sand within sight of the great Arabian desert. One of tho ship' 6 boats was sent back'to tho island of Perim to communicato with a British warship known to be bound up the Red Sea, and in three days they were sailing back over their tracks to connect with tho neit P. and 0. steamer bound ' for Suez. When' they reached London they found that tho news of their adventure had preceded them, and a play based thereon; entitled "Tho Overland Route," was being played at one of tho theatres. Needless to say, it was not a bit like the real thing. . In 1862 Mr. Carroll arrived in Wellington by the barquo Esterpe, and the same K?r 110 lv 'as appointed secretary to the Witulmgton Chamber of Commerce, a position ho'held until 1864, when .ho was appointed secretary of tho Wellington bteain Navigation Company. Tho company lasted ten years, and on its affairs being wound up, Mr. Carroll was onco more appointed secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, and held tho position with the greatest credit until tho time of his death. In 1873 he established .the "New Zealand Trade Review and Prices Current," which is still published every thTco weeks. Mr. Carroll had not been in good health for over a yea-T past, and had been under medical treatmeut for some months past. Latterly an operation became accessary This was performed at 5 o'clock on Saturday evening, and was successful, but ocdena of tho lungs supervened, and at 11.15 p.m. ho passed nway. Mrs. Carroll predeceased her N husband nearly eight years ago. The family consists of thrno daughters—Mesdames C. A. Ogilvie and J. \l ■ Deck, Miss Carroll, and Mr. Charlton W. Carroll (who has assisted his father for the pest few years). The interment (private.) will take place to-day.