OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21701, 7 February 1936, Page 21

OBITUARY

MR C. A. MACDONALD (rasas assocuxxov tukuuk.) BLENHEIM. February 8. Mr Colin Arthur Mac Donald, subeditor of the "Marlborough Express," and author of "Pages of the Past" (a history of Marlborough), died this afternoon after a short illness. Bom in Dtoedin 4 « years ago he was » son of Mr Arthur MacDanaliL a prominent wool merchant Mr MacDoaald "was on the staff of Jhe "Otago Daily Times," and many leading provincial papers before Joining the "Express" in 1922 as chief reporter. He was appointed sub-editor in 1833. MR E. BEZAR teatsß Assocutioa tklioeulJ WELLINGTON, February 6. The death has occurred of Mr Edwin Bezar, formerly a sergeant-major of the 57th West Middlesex Regiment known as the Diehards. He was 97 years of age. The Diehards tooic an active part in suppressing that section of the Maori rebellion which kept the settlers of TarSnaki province in a fever of unrest in the early 'sixties. served in the Crimea with the Wiltshire Regiment He was transferred to the Diehards in 1857 and served at Aden during the Mutiny, and later in 1860 went to ln#ia, whence the regiment was dispatched the same year to New Zealand. In 1866 the 57th Regiment was recalled to England, and he took bis discharge in the colony as a coloursergeant.

When in 1868 the Maoris again threatened trouble on the west coast of the North Island he was appointed sergeant-major in the Wanganut distoet He remained with the Defence Department till 1892, when he retired! and had lived in Wellington ever MR HUGH AITKEN (fuss laqocunox tsunauj „ „ ' BLENHEIM; February 6 Mr Hugh AitkenTaged on* loan from the Mines Derartanent to the Unemployment Boardand employed, as a gold mining dritt, supervisor m Marlborough, died suddenly ll£ is i . eamp ,J lt he Onamalutu^Vaß 2 e came to MarlbomS from Wellington a year ago, SIR WALTER BAYNHAM —__ * (uhixsd pxsss utocuxtox—coFiMioarj (Beceived February 6, 7.5 pjn.) _•. iU -LONDON, February 5. hj J&SSS'SS oc^ Sir Walter de Mouchet Baynham, marine superintendent of the Orient Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. More: than 100 years ago a swirling stream, was discovered in North America, winding its turbulent, path through wnose walls rise at times WOO feet sheer above the water. The Salmon river, as it is called, is in Idaho, and was discovered daring a • geographical expedition a century ago, but all attempts to navigate it solar have been unsuccessful. The mountains rise round the stream to heights of as much as 12,000 feet, and owing ll£v J^^^ o *,* 1 *? «»tream and the i P n«^n« eeolo S ical tonnatfoos. the for all kinds of animals, birds and £&*•* carvi «8? were made&, of toe mmeral formations. A group of scientists is now setting out wiiTthe h OPe qf navigating the rushing stream, and with them wol.be a photographer armed wito apparatus for taking csoar photographs of the prehistoric pictures.

w2f J ' i X u ? e ] l » has been appointed assistant ground engineer to the CanterbmysAtro Ctabi