"A PIONEER MARINER."
'■Sir, —Tho ,few''.-'veterans.'. loft, remaining-, throughout' tho' Dominion'will' read with intense' intorest tho graphic account given 'in. your, valuable '.paper' of, the .lifo of tho late Captain Archibald Kennedy.y Tho writer hereof knew him .well, and was intimatoly associated with him for years on land and sea, and, - knowing tho deceased skipper's innato, modesty, I would add my testimony to tho'tact and courage he dis-J played'when 1 transporting the. Hau-hau rebels by tho s.s;, Sti.'Kilda from.Napior toWhareka.ui'i (Cliatlianr'lsles): ivitli an insufficient ! guard : over them; Had they uprisen ;on board, as they subsequently did later on at the "'.islands — when they seized - Captain M'Clutchie's'three-masted schooner Rifleman —aiid "dispatched tho St. Kilda's genial captain-' .and"! hardy' crew, no -account whatever ; would' have ever appeared in the papers, but tho gallant captain's nerve and suavity of manner'preserved all, as the ,prisoners: knew well his'kindlynaturo.—l am, etc.,. ; ,AN X. N. V. C. ' Wellington, March 12, 1908.;',
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 145, 13 March 1908, Page 5
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