NONAGENARIAN PASSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 276, 21 November 1931, Page 16

NONAGENARIAN PASSES.

HARDY NORTHERN SETTLER. FAMILIAR WITH ARCTIC. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WHANGAREI, Friday. The death took place at the Whangarei District Hospital to-day of Mr. Richard Cossill, who was in his-91st year. He was born at Kaikohe on March 12, 1837, his father, Mr. Chas. Cossill, of Suffolk, England, having come in a brig to load spars at Hokianga on behalf of the Imperial Government and married a native of high caste. This marriage, conducted by Bishop Williams, is said to have been the first to take place in New Zealand between the two rapes under European law and Christian ceremony. Mr. Richard Cossill spent a lengthy period of years at sea in various craft, including whalers, and paid visits to remote ports of the globe, including the Arctic regions, and obtaining the rank of captain. He was On two of the first boats which came to Whangarei—the schooners Isabella and Ivanhoe —both of which wpre subsequently wrecked. He was also mate of 'both the Ruahine and the Clansman. The immediate cause of Mr. Cossill's death was blood poisoning, due to a cut from a, tomahawk in one of his feet. He is survived by a family of eight married children, comprisingly five sons and three daughters, numerous grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

Abrupt emission of steam up the chimney causes the cough or puff of a railway engine. When moving slowly the coughs can, of course, be heard following each other quite distinctly, but when speed is increased the puffs are emitted one after the other much more rapidly. When eighteen coughs a second are produced they cannot be separately distinguished by the ear. A locomotive running at the rate of nearly 70 miles an hour emits twenty puffs of steam every second —ten for each of "its two cylinders.