“IN MEMORY OF THE DEAD.”

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2563, 8 June 1881, Page 2

“IN MEMORY OF THE DEAD.”

written some years ago, relative to the excursions I made to despatch and locate salmon ova in the various parts of this Colony, I send yon the following extract regarding the- late . Captain Garrard, entitled ‘ Characteristics of English Sailors —‘Nothing pleased me more than the hearty way in which these good fellows helped me. By sea or land it was always the same. Chief Oflicer Garrard, of the steamers Wanaka and Taupo, is a fair example. This splendid specimen of the English sailor —those lithe, active, courteous, noble young gallants who carrying the flag of England across every sea —give abundant promise that if ever the necessity arises, in war as in peace, England may safely depend, as of yore, on her brave toilers on the sea,’ Poor Garrardl He is gone, but he died at his post, like the brave sailor he was sticking to the ship to the last, resolved, if he could not save the lives of the helpless women and children under his charge, that he would not save his own.”