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Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 8, 23 December 1893, Page 11

In another column of this issue we have givfflh particulars of the experience of the ill-fated ship Trafalgar, and expressed an opinion that some recognition of the services of the brave lad Sholton, who .navigated the vessel into port, should be made. We are pleased to learn just previous to our going to press'that the Minister for Customs in Victoria had decided to present him with a gold watch. This is as it should be, for brave actions are always worthy of reward. We have still to learn, however, that the owners of the vessel have responded in a fitting manner, and we sincerely trust that that news may come by a subsequent cable.

In bidding farewell to the Mataura electorate, Mr. G. F. Eichardson, who was defeated at the last general elections, spoke as follows :—“ I can never know a community as I knew Macaura—it has been the growth of a masonry of ‘ Auld'Lang Syne ’ —and it is improbable that I shall again take part in public life, except Mataura requires my services. Give your new member a fair trial, and if he proves the right man in the right place, and duly maintains the honour of Mataura in Parliament, I shall not seek to disturb him l” The speech was both manly and dignified and we must compliment Mr, Eichardson on his tact and graceful acceptance of defeat.