ADDITIONAL REMIONISCENSES.

Mr Walker, who was a magistrate for Monmouthshire, was a man of intense mental energy, and possessed a faculty of the finest degree for organisation and a memory so retentive that he could take up a piece of work or conversation he had dropped for months and go on with it as if there had been no lapse of time. No detail escaped him, and during the crisis in the Soudan the Marquess of Salisbury consulted him as to internal Africa. His varied travels in the East gave him a wonderful grasp of Oriental life, and some five years ago, at the Roath-road Wesleyan Chapel, he gave a wonderfully interesting address on Mahomedan life and worship. In fact, it may be said without exaggeration that there is no man living whose judgemental upon railways and eastern development was more thought of in high quarters. Since he took up the contract for the Manchester Ship Canal he had been resident at Durham Hall, Altrincham, but he also kept on Mount Ballam, between Chepstow and the Severn Tunnel works. To this latter residence he came about three weeks ago with a view to resting for a short time, and then going to Bournemouth for the winter.

HE IS VISITED BY MR LEWIS WILLIAMS, J.P., CARDIFF.

On Sunday week last he drove with his daughters and Mr Lewis Williams, J.P., of Cardiff, who was there on a visit, to the mission chapel, and at the close of the service addressed a few words to the men. On Wednesday last he was to have left for Bournemouth, and a saloon carriage was actually at the station for him when he was siezed with paralysis, though his primary complaint was Bright's disease. On his sizure Dr Edwards, of Cardiff, was telegraphed for, and he was in close attendance up to the time of death. Dr Guy Hunt, of Cardiff, in fact, was in personal attendance the whole of the time. He leaves a widow and four daughters, two sons having pre-deceased him. The eldest daughter is married to Mr Lewis P. Nott, a gentleman of great ability, who was in charge of the principal section of the Manchester Ship Canal works. Another daughter is married to her cousin, Mr C. H. Walker, who was in charge of the Severn Tunnel works on the Gloucestershire side, afterwards in charge of the Barry Dock Works, and who is now in command in Buenos Ayres. Mr C. H. Walker, when resident in this neighbourhood, lived at the Butrills, Barry Dock Town ; and he was originally a member of the recently defunct School Board for the parishes of Cadoxton and Merthyr Dovan.

SORROW AT BARRY DOCK AND MANCHESTER.

The news of the death of Mr Walker was received with general regret both at Barry Dock and Manchester. The directors of the ship canal company had been aware for some time past of Mr Walker's illness, and all the necessary legal steps had been taken so that the work of constructing the canal might be carried on without interruption. The work will be completed under the terms of Mr Walker's contract. The funeral will take place at noon to-day (Friday), at Caerwent, in which parish the deceased gentleman had lately purchased a large estate.