CAPTAIN BALDWIN.

Saturday Advertiser, Issue 29, 29 January 1876, Page 7

CAPTAIN BALDWIN.

The employes of the Guardian and Mercury Printing Company assembled on Saturday afternoon at the Occidental Hotel for the purpose of presenting Captain Baldwin with an illuminated address on the occasion of his retiring from the editorial chair of those journals, over which he has presided with great ability and success for a period of about a year. Mr George Fenwick, the general manager of the Company, occupied the chair, and on behalf of the employes, presented the address, a very nicely and beautifully-executed work of art, from the hands of Mr Thomas George.

The address read as follows : “Wm. Baldwin, Esq. —Dear Sir,—We the undersigned employes of the Guardian Printing Company (Limited), desire to express our regret that private circumstances should have induced you to relinquish the editorship of the Guardian and Southern Mercury. the time we have had the pleasure of working with you, we Have found you on all occasions gentlemanly, straightforward, and obliging.; and while zealously looking after the interests of the Company, you have always been careful to deal justly with those under your supervision. Wishing you, dear sir, a prosperous career, we beg to subscribe ourselves, yours, very sincerely.” [Here follow 35 signatures.] In making the presentation Mr Fenwick spoke in very high terms of Captain Baldwin, and expressed the regret -which he, and. all employed on the paper, felt, that his private affairs should have induced him torelinquish the conduct of the journals over which he has so ably presided during the last year. Captain Baldwin responded in suitable terms, and proposed, “Success to the Guardian and Southern Mercury,” coupled with the names of Messrs Utting and Browne.

These gentlemen having briefly responded, the toast of “ Our Visitors ” was next proposed and responded to by Messrs Leary and Bracken.

A vote of thanks to the chairman brought a very agreeable meeting to a close. For ourselves, we must express our sorrow that Captain Baldwin has thought fit to relinquish his connection with the Dunedin Press, for during the time he has filled the editorial chair of our High-street contemporary, he has, by bis sound judgment and consistent policy, made the Otago Guardian a credit to New Zealand journalism. We wish him success, and trust his absence from the literary ranks may be only temporary.