DARKY SAUNDERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20537, 11 April 1930, Page 14

DARKY SAUNDERS.

Snv-I beg to substantiate what Mr/. ]{. .C. Barnes writes about poor old Martin, commonly known as "Parky Saunders." The poor old fellow used to bring nie a good New Zealand Inneewood walking-stick every time he came to town with his gum. But chiefly he liked to have, a yarn with me about the place where he was born and brought up a nice, clean little house with polished mahogany floors as slippery as glass at Orange Street, Kingston, Jamaica. The Saunders were as much respected as any in Jamaica, and the three brothersDarky as captain, for lie was a very welleducated man and as fine a seaman as ever stepped a deckplank —owned and ran a schooner down to Port Limon, fosta Rica, and Bluefields, Nicaragua. Tlio whole of Orange Street was destroyed by fire following the destruction of Kingston by earthquake and we—for I joined the tire brigade—failed to recover the bodies of his brothers. Martin (Darky) was at sea at the timo and I believe was stranded by the tidal wave which struck the Caymons Group. Poor old Darkv, I shall always think of him with kindness, nay, real affection. Ho was a coloured gentleman and a man; J. 11. Owen.