PRESENTATION TO CAPTAIN SEWELL.

North Otago Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1283, 24 May 1876, Page 2

PRESENTATION TO CAPTAIN SEWELL.

The rendering of " Honor where honou is due" was never better exemplified than in the presentation to our worthy Harbor Master, Captain Sewell, made yesterday on that Company's behalf by Mr George Sumpter, agent for the New Zealand Insurance Company. The unsparing pains which Captain Sewell has always taken for the preservation of shipping and floating property, often at great personal inconvenience, and sometimes at considerable personal risk, is a circumstance too well known to need stating, but wo are all the more glad to see the fact recognised, in a manner alike honorable to the recipient and the donors of the presentation, which we have now the pleasure of chronicling. It consisted of a handsome gold lever hunting watch, from the establishment of Mr John Hislop, Princes street, Dunedin, and of the value of 25 guineas, which bears the following inscription : — " Presented , to Captain Sewell by the New Zealand Insurance Company, as a slight acknowledgment o£ his courtesy, and in consideration of the valuable aid accorded by him in protecting the Company's interests. " The watch was forwarded to Mr Sumpter for presentation to Captain Sewell, by Mr Elliott, the Dunedin manager ; and the first-named gentleman, in transmitting it to the recipient, in graceful terms mentions the kind attention which Captain Sewell has always given him, as agent for the Company here, in all cases of wreck or danger to vessels, and begs him to accept and value it, "not for its intrinsic worth, but rather for the spirit and intention with which it is given." He concludes by expressing the hope that Captain Sewell may long live to wear it — a hope in which we cordially unite.