DEATH OF AN EX-PREMIER

Evening Star, Issue 12885, 7 August 1906, Page 6

DEATH OF AN EX-PREMIER

THE HON 0. M. WATERHOUSE. WANGANUI. August 7. Private advices from Home announce tho death of the Hon. G. M. Waterhouse, a former Premier of New Zealand; at Torquay ; aged eighty-two. The deceased was also Premier of South Australia, and was said to be the only statesman who had held the Premiership of two colonies. [Waterhouse. George Marsden. sometime Prime Minister of South Australia and New Zealand, was the son of the late Rev. John Waterhouse, general superintendent of Wesleyan missions in Australia and Polynesia. Ho was bora in 1824, and commenced his public career in South Australia, where his father was for some time engaged, in the ministry. In 1851 he was elected to the then partially nominated Legislative Council of South Australia for East Torrens, hut resigned his scat in June, 1854. In 1857 ho was elected to tho newly-consti-tuted Legislative Assembly for his old constituency, but only sat 'for one session. Mr Waterhouse was returned to the wholly elective Legislative Council in April, 1860, but again retired from Parliament in December, 1864. Mr Waterhouse was Premier and Chief Secretary of‘South Australia from October, 1861, to July, 1863. In 1869 ho took up his residence in New Zealand. and the next year was nominated to the Legislative Council of that colony. Mr Waterhouse was a member of the third Pox Ministry, from October 50 to November 20, 1871. In October. 1872, he became Premier of New Zealand, this being the only instance in Australasian history of the office of Premier being successively held by the same person in two colonics. In March of the next year, however, he resigned, finding that, 'with the Leadership of the Lower House vested in Sir Julius (then Mr) Vogel, ho possessed the name rather than the reality of power. Ree ntly Mr Waterhouse has resided in England.]