“Old-Timer” Passes.
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Thursday Is., June 30.
AN old-timer passed away this month in the person of Douglas Pitt, a West Indian native, who has been round the Straits and T.I. since the ’six ties. He was 91 years old.
In the days when pearling boats were running to the Strait from all parts, and when conditions were much more lively and romantic than now, Douglas Pitt made his way to the north and, in course of time, came to own his own boats.
Like many another, he became poor again when the wine ran red and boats became the stake.
But many an interesting yarn can be spun round the old man, and he him self had many a story of the early days which he used to relate in carefully expressed English. A good many de scendants are left behind, both in the Islands and in other places in North Queensland, to perpetuate the name.