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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1715, 11 January 1905, Page 74 (Supplement)

The connection that exists between Port Arthur and a peaceful village in Devonshire is little known. Half a century ago the rector of was the 'Rev James Arthur, the father of Lieutenant W. Arthur, R.N., and great uncle of the present rector, the Rev W. W. Arthur; and Lieutenant Arthur was, somewhere about 1859, sent in command of the gunboat Algerine into Chinese waters. The Algerine was attached to a surveying expedition prior to the landing made by the Knglisli and French in 18G0, and when the flagship Act eon was disabled Lieutenant Arthur towed her into the then unnamed harbour, which was thenceforth known as Port Arthur. Lieutenant Arthur afterwards attained the rank of rear-admiral.

Mr D. J. Cooper, who lost one of his logs at Kaitoke by being st ruck by a railway locomotive a few clays ago*. is continuing to improve at the hospital.