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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6970, 9 November 1909, Page 4

Colonel G. M. Kirkpatrick, R.E., Assistant Quartermaster-General, Strategical Branch, Staff Indian Array, who is acting as Lord Kitchener’s Staff Officer during iatter's Federal tour in Australia, arrived in Melbourne yesterday. Mrs Waterhouse, who died in Hawthorn, Melbourne, was the relict of the Rev. Joseph Waterhouse. Mr Water•>us© was drowned in the wreck of the Tararua, on Waipapa Point, New Zealand, in 1881. His wife was a native of Hobart, and when the shipbuilding industry was a great source of employment there, her father, Mr John Watson, was one of the best known shipbuilders. Immediately after her marriage she accompanied her husband to Fiji. In those days wars were prevalent, and cannibalism was rife. It was ■ during Hr Waterhouse's stay in Fiji, \ and largely through his influence, that tho noted Thakombau abandoned heathenism. Since her husband's death Mrs Waterhouse had resided in Hawthorn*