Hilion, George Philip, Importer and Commission Agent, 8 Ranfurly Buildings, 87 Queen Street, Auckland. Private residence, Hobson Street. Mr. Hilton was born in Liverpool, England, in 1844, and was educated in London and on the Continent. He became a civil and mining engineer, and travelled much before landing in Auckland, in 1860. Mr. Hilton was one of the pioneers of the Thames, and was second in command of the Big Pump for several years. He was engineer to the Moanataiari Company for six years, and designed and supervised the erection of several batteries. The Southern Cross Petroleum Company's works at Rotokautuku, Poverty Bay, were managed by him for two years, and he supervised the erection of the most modern boring apparatus. He was for over four years manager of the Cromwell Gold Mining Company's mine, where he erected pumping, winding, and electrical plants. Afterwards he was employed by the Castle Company as constructor of cyanide plants, and carried out extensive experiments to prove the suitability of this method of treatment for various ores. Mr. Hilton claims to have been one of the first to introduce rock drills driven by compressed air, and the electric lighting of mines; and was the inventor of five systems of aerial wire tramway, and also of the gravity arm. He is one of the patentees of improvements for overcoming the skin friction of vessels. While at the Thames he studied at the School of Mines, and became qualified as an assayet and mineralogist. Mr. Hilton was married, in 1864, to a daughter of the late Mr. T. Blagden, of London, and has three sons.