DEATH OF ME. W. R. WADDEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9076, 9 June 1888, Page 5

DEATH OF ME. W. R. WADDEL.

We regret to announce the decease of Mr. W. R. Waddel, who died at his residence, Hobson -street, yesterday afternoon, at a quarter to four o'clock. For the pasfc twelve months, Air. Waddel has been in more or less failing health, the result of a brain affection, due to worry. During his public career he held a multiplicity of offices, meanwhile having to attend to the details of his own business, the resulb being that he overtaxed his energies to so great an extent that the malady referred to supervened, and eventually caused his death. Few men have been so intimately connected with the progress of this city and its public institutions as was the late Mr. Waddel. He arrived in Auckland in 1847 from Glasgow when a mero lad, and he at onco sot himself to work with such industry and perseverance at his trade of a baker that seven years later ho was enabled to start in business, his success being from the first assured. In 1559, when tho volunteer movement was established, he became a member of that body, and served as Senior Lieutenant of tho Victoria Company of Rifles during tho Waikato War. At the close of seven years' service he resigned his connection with the volunteers, and in 1876 he was elected to tho City Council, and ho became in 1579 a member of the Harbour Board, with which body he had ever since been identified, having a few months ago been elected chairman for the third term of office. Mr. Waddol was looked upon in ISS2 as the coming Mayor, but he gracefully deferred to a wide-spread feeling in favour of Mr. J. M. Clark s fulfilling a third term, and in the following year this act of courtesy was remembered to his credit, for he was then elected to the Mayoralty without opposition,and was again returned Mayor of Auckland in ISB4 and ISSS. For some time Mr. Waddol held the position of Chairman of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Latterly he again showed an interest in the volunteer movemont, when he became the Captain of the City Guards Corps. The deceased gentleman filled a largo number of minor positions, including offices in the Oddfellow and Freemasons Lodges, and at tho time of his death was P.M., IX G. Treasurer, in tho District Grand Lodge of Auckland. The late Mr. Waddel leaves a wife and several sons and daughters to mourn their loss. His remains are to be interred with military honours, in the Symondsstreet cemetery, on Sunday afternoon.