Tribute To Late Mrs.

Mahony

1 APPRECIATE the “PIM” article about Mrs. Elizabeth Mahony, form erly of Sudest and Samarai. I first met this fine old lady in 1897, on Wood lark Island goldfield, on her way to Sudest. She had been down to Cook town, and she was on her way back — with a baby. They were on the schooner “Ivanhoe,” with Captain Steele. The bar-tender and cook (“Billy the Cook”) was on a bender, and Captain Steele asked Mrs. Mahony to take charge of the commissariat. Later, for three months, on Sudest, I had my meals with the Mahony family. Mrs. Mahony was a very wonderful woman. Reports, which I do not doubt, said that she saved the lives of many white men in the early days of the Sudest goldfield. All who knew her had the highest regard for her—A. S.

Meek.