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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 23 December 1922, Page 10

Til© voyage of t Lo - lil :- ;in ! m ". Vancouver was marred by a pea. the victim hong a young , H lini (gave tin? Auckland Start. The eu-emn-stances of this were somewhat sad. The young man i-aine of good ('state, hut had fled from the confinements m Fiji and shipped away as a sailor he •fore the mast. After some mat’s «»t vf , - .JuUiing ho settled for a wisin' at Honolulu, where he unfortunately contracted consumption. Then it was, .alter several months’ suhwhig- that he dosided to return to die among the people of his own Fiji, if it were say ordained that lie should die nt the while jnan .- scourge. The young man came aboard tho Niagara in a stale of advance'. 1 >[!■ ness, and though the ship’s surgcoon did everything pos-«ih!o for h:m. ho was seized with <a .hemorrhage soon after sailing, and died half-way between Honolulu and Suva. He was buried at sea, his body being "consigned to the deep” over the ship’s stern —a sad and impressive ceremony.