TOPICS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12481, 6 March 1909, Page 4

TOPICS.

COMMODORE GOODENOUGH. In the latest "National Review" Adniiial Moresby writes on "The Navy Sixty Years Ago " In the course of the aiticle lie gives a touching accountof the last h'ouis of Commodore Goodofibugh. He says — "When, as Commedore on the Australian station (where I was one of his captains), he iaj dying under the poisoned ariows of savages, this lifelong instinct of service- culminated 'in one supreme effort. In his agony he caused fiimself to be canicd to the quarter-deck, and the ship's company to be summoned that he might bid them farewell. _ There with his ebbing strength lie pointed to them ttie guiding star of his own life— < that Star -which never shone more sei renely than 'in the hour of his death He entreated them to be valiant against the temptations so lavishly strewn in the sailoi's way, adding, "Befoie I go back to die, I should like you all to say 'God^bless you ' This, with one voice, and veiy earnestly, they did, and he replied, 'God bless jou all with such happiness as he has given me. • He^shook hands with all this petty officers, having a special w old for each, and was then earned exhausted, but m peifect contentment, of spirit to his cabin sajmg, 'I suprose there is nothing now to be done but to die quietly.' Them was, indeed, no more, and on the following day he ai sweied to the Jngh lecall,. ->vhich, for him could nevei come too early or too late." >