Mr. Charles Archer Wells, Postmaster and Telegraphist of the Te Kopuru Post Office, has been in the public service for over twenty years. Born in Taranaki in 1853, where his father, Mr. Benjamin Wells, resided, the subject of this notice was educated at the Nelson College and the Auckland High School. After spending about a year in a solicitor's office, Mr. Wells entered the Telegraph Department in Wellington in 1875, and was soon transferred to Greytown North, subsequently being promoted to the charge of the Southbridge Post Office in Canterbury. He then spent some years at Helensville, New Plymouth, and Palmerston North, being transferred from the latter town to Auckland, where he was stationed for six years. He was then placed in charge at Warkworth, whence he was transferred to Te Kopuru. In his youth Mr. Wells was a member of the Taranaki Militia, and at a later date of the Egmont Rifles. During his residence in Southbridge he was organist of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Wells spends his leisure hours in literary pursuits, and has contributed several articles to colonial journals, and also to the “Boy's Own Annual.” He is a master Mason, his mother lodge being Mount Egmont, New Plymouth, E. C. In 1883 Mr. Wells married a daughter of the Rev. Joseph Long, of New Plymouth, and has four sons and two daughters.