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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2454, 3 April 1888, Page 2

Siv. Robert Walter Cardes, who recently died in London, had a proprietary interest in The Times newspaper before he was boro. The story is dramatic in its way. His father was a barrister in good practice, and married Jemima Walter, daughter of the first and sister of the second John Walter, proprietors of The Times. This paper had but lately changed its style and title, having been aforetime known as the Daily Universal Register. At the wedding breakfast of Mr Garden and Miss Walter, the father of the bride rose and proudly endowed her, as a marriage gift, with a column of advertisements in the youug and rising journal. The particular column was the third, or as it is sometimes called now, the "agony column " ; and it is said that the family lawyer, who was present, but had not been consulted in this important matter, was not well pleased with Mr Walter' 3 impulsive generosity. Whatever the column in question was worth at that time, its commercial value must have vastly increased as the years rolled on, and little Master Robert came into the world proprietor of an undeveloped goldmine. Mr John Knox will hold the usual sale of meat, produce, poultry, etc., at the Hamilton Auction Mart on Saturday next, at 1.30 p.m.