DEATH OF MR. S. CARROLL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 135, 5 December 1910, Page 8

DEATH OF MR. S. CARROLL.

« AN APPRECIATION. Those who have been accustomed to tee for so many years thedsecretary of the Wellington Chamber 'of Commerce j in his office will, no doubt, deeply re- ! gret to hear of his death, after a brief ] Slness, on Saturday evening last. As a colonist of nearly fifty years .Mr. Carioll occupied an important place iii'tho history of Wellington, to which city lie came in 1862. He was cradled in commerce, so to say, and began his business career in the office ox his father, JUr. Samuel- Carrofl, - East^ , India .mer- ' chant. Mincing-lane, in 1843. He was educated in the city of Londou and was » freeman. Of his citizenship he was intensely proud. The motto of the city, Donune dirige nos~, meant very much to bim in the ordering of his life. He was, too, a member of the Clothpworkers' Company, and, was exceedingly .proud of his connection with -that ancient trade- guild. , .. . • . In the 'fifties 3lr. Carroll . was connected with an English house doing ■business with the East Indies, and he terved in Batavia, Singapore, and •Manila- On returning to England in rthe P. and O. steamer Alma in 1859 Mr. Carroll "and his fellow 'passengers were wrecked on the Hanrish "lslands, in- the Tied" Sea. On each side of the sea there Avera then, as now, "fierce 'T3*e~dbuin' .hordes reildy" to 'plunder aSld" Murder the' .passengers and crew, -and -on-the'-I-slaiid* there was no wates. - The shipwrecked ,pattj< were all'l'aken "off'fHree and a half days' later "by H-M.S. 'Cyclo.ps; after much suffering from thirst and ex.posure to the terrific heat of the Red -Sea-. Only one life was lost, that of ilhe" purser, and he died' from sunstroke." ffhere was no Suez Catiat-'in' 1 'those" 'days, so fche members of-4he party -=wer» ,ovei landed from Suez -to the Nile, and itherice to Alexan'diia, wheie they took ship for- London. That was tho-mail aoute in those days. The incident of the wreck formed the basis of> Tom iTaylor's "Overland ' P k oute." In Wellington Mr. Carroll began his duties as secretary to the Chamber of .Commerce in 1862, and continued them until 1864, when he was appointed secTetaTy of the Wellington Steam Navigation Company. This company, after paying a ten per cent.' dividend "every" year and returning £19 for -every £10 share on liquidation, was the forerunner .of the " New ' ZealarTa" Steam ""Navigation _ The representative of that company- -at Pictcn was- -che< -late- Mr. '[Arthur Beajichamp (father of. the present chairman of the Bank of New Zealand), who died recently. Mr. Arthur 'Beauehamp, Mr. D. M. Luckie, and Mr. Carroll were born in the same year. ,1827. la 1875 Mr. Carroll was reappointed secretary of the Chamber of 4 Commeroej and held ,tbat^pjDsJ>,,4njtil^h,js, jtleath.- -In- 1875, too, he founded" thei"few Zealand Trade- Review, and this journal provided him with a vehicle for ,the expression of his exceedingly cauti,«as views on. financial and commercial -topics. He was one who believed most ifewently in keeping the well of Eng,lish undefiled. The modern tendency to {use inflated language over things that Mo not matter was most abhorrent to ■him. He was a very well-read man, and a French scholar- His long resi,d^nc'e in Wellington, combined with'nis '(wonderfully clear memory right to the 3ast, had enabled him to acquire ,an abundant store of reminiscences of the earlier New Zealand ' politicians and their peculiarities. For himseli he took Bo active part hi politics at all. • Mr. Carroll is survived by his son, iJ'lt. C. W. Carroll, for some years his • colla-borator; and his daughters, Mrs. C. A. Ogilvie, Mrs. J. JL Deck, and iMiss Carroll. Hisi wife predeceased him about eight years ago.