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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Mr. Walter Leslie

Mr. Walter Leslie, Hansard Reporter, was born at Sunbury, in Middlesex, in 1855, and was educated at Repton in Derbyshire, and at St. Andrew's University in Scotland. In 1874 he went to Australia per ship “Benmore,” landing in Sydney. Coming to New Zealand in 1878, Mr. Leslie has always been more or less intimately connected with the press; but being a clever caricaturist and an artist, his time has been divided between literary and artistic page 110 work. As an art critic he has made a name for himself, and he is well known in connection with “Parliamentary Portraits,” a work in which he was engaged during the recesses of 1887 and 1888. Mr. Leslie learned shorthand when he was ten years old, so its acquirement was never a work of great difficulty. For some time he was chief reporter and sub-editor of the New Zealand Times, and he has held important positions on other newspapers of the Colony. In 1879 Mr. Leslie was married at Dunedin to Camilla, daughter of the late Karl Ulkjar, officer in the Danish army.