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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12755, 30 March 1910, Page 4

A commercial traveller, named Nicholson, aged 51, was found dead with a revolver bullet in his head at Hobart (Tasmania) last week. He had suffered from ill-health lately, which preyed on his mind. It was as a cabin boy on a coasting schooner that Captain John Pritchard, commodore of the Cunarder Mauretania, the world's greatest and fastest liner,- ''began- life. He was not much more than 10 when he went to sea and learned to peel potatoes for the master of a. little Welsh ship. He was good at -peeling potatoes ;;be was good at everything ho touched ; so he rose to the post of cook, at 12s a month, when ho was hardly in his teens. From a good cook he made himself into a good seaman, arid obtained a mate & certificate when he was 21 years'old. Captain Pritchard has been with the; Cunaixl Line—which he joined as ajunior officer— for 30 years. He has now announced his intention of retiring shortly into privatejife.-"-