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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 43, 21 February 1874, Page 10

The Town Commission ors of "Wicklow have presented an addrese to Captain Robert ITalpin, of tiies.s Great Eastern, on tha occasion of hie marriage. Ur T« T enry M'Phail, tho Chairman, and the other Commiss'onci s, proceeded from the Town Hall to the residenco of Dr. Fulpin, the brother of C ipt.un Ililpin. On nmviug there the Chairman presented Captain Halpin uitii the Commissioners' address. In this doenment the Commissioners allude to the fact tha f . Captain Halpin's much-resgected father filled the office of Portreeve of Wicklow, espiessed their admiration for thr Captain, alluded to the distinguished reputation ho had won by his conduct while in command of the largest slap afloat in her various telegraph cable-lading expeditions, and congratulated him on his recent mar' iage. Captain Halpin, iv replying, thanked the Commissioners, an.i remarked that he had now laid IG,OOO milee of telegraph cabV wuhout the lo*s of a single life by accident. He sail that he had be.m congratulated at various times during his career by the lafe L'inprror Xapo'eou and other Sovereigns, anil by tho late Lord Maj o as He" Majesty's representative in India, but he had never felt more flatlcre t by anything than by the addrese presented to hin in his native towu.