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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 121, 18 November 1918, Page 5

Mr. E. W. Redstone, a well-known commercial traveller, has fallen a victim to complications following an attack of influenza. Deceased arrived in Wellington with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bedstone, of Hataitai, 39 yeara ago, and on the 7th December, 1903, he married Miss Eva Godber, younger daughter of 'Councillor and Mrs. James Godber. He has left a widow and a little daughter. His only brother has been on active service nearly three

years.

Captain John Henderson, who joined the Wellington Pilot Staff in 1888 when it was stationed at Worser Bay, has retired from the Harbour Board's service, having reached the age limit. Born in Aberdeen in 1852, he was educated at Peterhead, and then went to eea with, his father, who was master of a vessel trading on the coast of Scotland. In 1880 he gained a -captain's certificate and made a number of trips to various parts of the world. His first command was a schooner named the Minnie, in which he voyaged to Portugal and the Rio Grande. In 1886 he arrived in Auckland by the old steamer lonic, and two years later he became a member of the Wellington Harbour Board staff. For some years past he has been on the tally clerics'- staff. On 17th August, 1889, he was in the pilot boat when it capsized while being towed out to the Heads by the s.s. Herald to meet the ship Plione one dark night. A heavy southerly was blowing and a big sea running. Pilot-- Simms and two others (Tait and Cox) were drowned, Captain Henderson and Mr. Vase (now of Christchurch) being the only members of the boat's crew who wera 6aved. Before he left the service Captain Henderson was presented with a purso of money and a case of pipes.