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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 155, 20 March 1918, Page 4

On behalf of tho Wellington City Council, Councillor Fitzgerald desires to thank those citizens who so generously and in such largo numbers responded to his' appeal for motor-cars for the use of tho soldiers who returned to Wellington from tho front on Monday. William Saunders, who tho other day was found lying dead across his bed in a hut on tho banks of Broken Creek, near Devenish, Victoria, was probably the last of the original Georgia Minstrels. Ho was born in Alabama 75 years ago (relates "Glen Huntly" in tho "Bulletin"), and in his oarly days was a slave. Gaining his freedom after the Civil War, he camo here with the first Georgia Company in 1877. That lot, which was under tho managomont of Charlie Hicks and Billy Wilson, made a hit at Melbonrno Princess's with "TJncle Tom's Cabin," tho cast including Charles Crusoe, J. Matlock, Sam Kienau, Hosea Easton, and Morton Jackson. Saunders was mostly cast for femalo parts, but was also a capital' endman. Ho left tho stage about 20 years ago to go on the land, and of rooont years worked at a sawmill. Unerring nccurncy and dynamic strength in organisation and manufacture jfive to the CHEVROLET car that enduring life which powor, accuracy, and 6trongth in the forge give to the hundreds of important though unsoon parts of the car—Advfc.