Perils of the Past.
[Wellington Paper-.] A simple yet moat touching memorial tablet may be seen resting on the skirting-board at the back of St. Paul's Cathedral close to the baptismal font. It sets forth that it was erected by J. Rhod.s, Porirua, m the year 1846, m memory of the drowning of four orfive seamen of the Petrel, who lost their lives m the wr^ck of that vessel, and m tb^f service of the gentleman named. TfflN tablet,, which is of copper, is corroded with age and verdigris, and, judging from the screwoholes on it, to which still aiheres a quantity of plaster, it was once attached to a monument of some kind or other. As " a memory of the past " it is worthy of a more prominent position than that which it at present occupies.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 191, 19 July 1883, Page 2
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