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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 16, 28 February 1913, Page 5

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The death is announced in Weilington papers of Mr John Chapman, aged 86 years. Deceased formerly lived at Bishopdale, Nelson. Mr J. H. Morrison has been appointed Inspector of Factories for Marlborough, vice Constable Doggett. This appointment is a result of the new police regulations. . It is officially stated in London that the King has granted Mrs Scott the same rank and precedence as if Captain Scott had been nominated a Commander of the Bath, as he would have been if he had survived. ' The Hon. Captain Baillie, M.L.C., celebrated his 86th birthday at Wellington on Saturday, and was the recipient of a number of congratulatory telegrams from his Marlborough friends. In response to a letter received from the Rev. C. Aker, of Havelock, Lieutenant Fennel, of the Terra Nova, has given the assurance that the widow of the late Mr Bressenden (who met his death at French Pass) will be cared for, and that no difference is or ever has been—made between a member who wintered South or one who stayed .with the ship. Lieutenant Fennel further stated that immediate plops were taken to ensure that she should be in no want after his death, and on our return to England arrangements will be mide to see that she and her children are properly pro vided for.” Mrs Brussenden (who is now in England) has expressed a de- i sire to possess a photograph of her late husband’s grave, and this wish . Mr Aker is endeavouring to fulfil. Mr Harold Murray relates in the “ Sunday Magazine ” that when the Rev. J. E. Watts-Ditchfield returned ‘ from Australia, just before Christmas, j he asked Mr Deakin, formerly Prime Minister of that country, what impressed him most of all when be j came over for the Coronation of King Edward. “One night,” replied Mr . Deakin, “ I had been to a great func» ‘ tion. It was midnight, I was making my way home and I turned aside , into a narrow, dark alley. There, on a doorstep, I saw a little lad aged about 12 with his arm round a little girl of three. The lad had taken off his coat and wrapped it round the child, and with his cap he had covered her feet. Of all that I saw during my visit to London that J picture will ever be strongest in my memory.” 1