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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10606, 3 June 1920, Page 2

Captain Henry Fisk, who for many years was signalman ait the Wairau bar, died at Wellington on Tuesday night at the age of seventy-eight years. The deceased was .a native of Woodbridge, Suffolk.' He served his time when a youth on the barque Emily, trading in the Mediterranean and the Baltic. After following a seafarer’s life in various parte of tho world, he landed at Dunedin and spent some time on the Otago goldfields. Captain Fisk subsequently had command of several small vessels on tho New Zealand coast until his last appointment at the Wairau bar. Captain Fisk leaves a widow and a grown-up family, comprising Captain Arthur H. Msk (of the s.s. Wa.ita.ngi), Messrs .F. Fisk (Customs sendee), Isaac- Fisk (engineer for the Napier Borough Council), Henry Fisk (General Post Office). Wilson Fisk (Wellington), Napior Fink (Devin and 00.. Blenheim), and Mtcdanics Ferncr (Blenheim), and Wilkinson (Wellington). Tho interment will take place to-morrow morning, tho corte-ge leaving Ike residence of Captuin Wilkinson, 31, Ellis avenue, at 10 o’clock. —A watersider named Alexander Murchie had two toes on hie right foot badly injured through a jarrah log falling on tho foot while working on the Queen’s wharf yesterday afternoon. He was admitted to the hospital at 4.10 p.m. yesterday. It is understood that tho Hev. Hector MdLean, of Invercargill, has been appointed minister of St. Andrew’s Church, Dunedin, to succeed the llev. Dr, Waddell, who recently resigned.