OBITUARY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11801, 29 November 1912, Page 3

OBITUARY.

(Per Press Association.) ...'..'■'••'. V Dunedin, November 29;' C. S. Reeves, a members of the'Re--presentation Commission and an;old, Volunteer ."officer. .'r"..•;

Charles Stephen Reeves, J.P., whtf was Mayor of thp City o'f Dunedin in. 1876-7, was. born in Wexford, Ireland, and came to New Zealand in June, 1863, after a residence of eight years in Victoria. In 1873 he was returned to the City Council for Leith Ward, which he represented till May, 1876. During, the term- of his mayoralty, which followed closely on the abolition of the provinces, Mr Reeves was called on* to discharge manj' of the duties which had_ pjreviously devolved' upon the Superintendent. A member of the first Otago Harbor Board, Mr Reeves was chairman or that body when the first contract for dredging the Victorian Channel was let to Mr D. Proudfoot. In 1874 he was returned: as a member of the Provincial Council for Dunedin, and subsequently •served for eight years as a member of the Land Board, and was one of the first Hospital Trustees. Mr Reeves joined the Dunedin Artillery in 1863j, he was captain of the North Dunedin Rifles for nine years, and was promoted in 1885_ to the rank of major in command of the first battalion of . Otago Volunteers,, from which he retired in January, 1890, as lieutenant-colonel on the unattached list. Mr Reeves had been a Master Mason since 1859, and a member of the Order of Oddfellows since 1864.