Norton, Frederick, J.P., Medical Practitioner, Mangawhare. Mr. Norton was born in Northampton in 1842, and educated at Oundle Public School. He walked St. George's Hospital for three years and in 1863 came to New Zealand in the “Helvellyn,” obtaining a position in the Government service in which he remained for a short period. In 1868, he was appointed dispenser and house-surgeon at the Auckland provincial hospital. He retained the position for nine years and then removed to Dargaville. He was chairman of the Dargaville Town Board, judge for the local racing club, has been a Justice of the Peace for over twenty years, and was one of the founders of the Masonic lodge, of which he is at present a member. He was also chairman of the school committee. Mr. Norton married a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Brown Brady, M.A., County Clare, Ireland, and has two sons and one daughter living.