The Hon. William Rolleston. Page 38. Mr. Rolleston died at his residence, Kapunatiki, near Temuka, on the 8th of February, 1903.

The Hon. William Campbell Walker. Page 84. Mr. Walker resigned his positions in the Seddon Government in June, 1903, and was shortly afterwards elected Speaker of the Legislative Council.

Mr. W. W. Collins. Pages 89–90. Mr. Collins was not returned at the general election of November, 1902.

Mr. G. W. Russell. Page 91. Mr. Russell was not re-elected at the general election of November, 1902.

Mr. Henry Thomson. Pages 95–107. Mr. Thomson died on the 13th September, 1903.

Mr. Charles Lewis. Page 97. Mr. Lewis stood for the Parliamentary representation of Courtenay, at the general election held on the 25th of November, 1902, when he polled 1535 votes, or 351 more than the next highest candidate.

Corporation Of Christchurch . Page 100. Early in 1903 the Corporation of Christchurch became the Corporation of Greater Christchurch, by the inclusion of Sydenham, St. Albans and Linwood. The city, as now constituted, is divided into four wards; namely, Central Ward, Sydenham Ward, St. Albans Ward, and Linwood Ward. At the elections which took place on the 29th of April, 1903, the following members were elected. Central Ward: Councillors H. J. Beswick, W. H. Cooper, C. M. Gray, H. H. Loughnan, G. Payling, and H. B. Sorensen. Sydenham Ward: Councillors H. G. Ell, J. Forrester, J. Hadfield, and G. W. J. Parsons. St. Albans Ward: Councillors W. J. Neate and A. F. Carey. Linwood Ward: Councillors H. J. Otley and H. Pearce. [Mr. Ell having resigned his seat as one of the members for Sydenham Ward, a by-election ensued, and Mr. B. P. Manhire, at one time Mayor of Sydenham, was elected on the 3rd of September, 1903.]

Mr. H. F. Wigram. Page 100. In April, 1900, Mr. Wigram was elected, unopposed, first Mayor of Greater Christchurch. He was also called to a seat in the Legislative Council in June, 1903.

Mr. Joseph Henry Stringer. Page 103. Mr. Stringer has now (1903) retired from the service of the Christchurch City Council.

Mr. A. E. G. Rhodes. Page 109. Mr. Rhodes was elected chairman of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College, in succession to Mr. T. S. Weston, resigned.

Mr. William Hannibal Lane. Page 111. Mr. Lane died on the 3rd of February, 1903.

Mr. E. G. Wright. Pages 119–120. Mr. Wright died at his home, Windermere, near Ashburton, on the 12th of August, 1902.

Lyttelton Harbour Board. Pages 118–119. Fresh elections to the Board took place in February, 1903, and the Board, as now constituted, consists of the following members; namely, George Laurenson, M.H.R., appointed by his Excellency the Governor; the Mayor of Lyttelton (W. Radcliffe), member ex-officio for one year; F. H. Barns, elected by the ratepayers of the borough of Lyttelton; F. Graham and G. J. Smith, elected by the ratepayers of the city of Christchurch; F. Waymouth, the ratepayers of St. Albans; J. Brown, the ratepayers of Sydenham; W. Rollitt, united boroughs of Linwood, Woolston and Sumner; Isaac Gibbs and A. Kaye, Canterbury Chamber of Commerce; James Gough and John Wolfe, the Selwyn County Council; D. Buddo, M.H.R., appointed by Government, Ashley County Council having failed to elect; John Lambie, elected by Ashburton County Council; James Hay, elected by Akaroa County Council. Mr. Albert Kaye is chairman of the Board.

Mr. C. J. R. Williams, Assoc. M. Inst., C.E., was appointed engineer to the Lyttelton Harbour Board in December, 1902.

From a Drawing by Sir William Foz.
The “Cressy's” Passengers landing at Lyttelton on the 27th of December, 1850

page 1108

High Street, Christchurch.

Captain Thomas McClatchie. Page 120. Captain McClatchie died on the 27th of July, 1903.

Mr. Albert Kaye. Page 121. Mr Kaye was elected chairman of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, in succession to the late Mr. E. G. Wright.

Mr. Richard Westenra. Page 126. Mr. Westenra died on the 6th of April, 1903. His wife, a daughter of the Rev. W. Aylmer, sometime of Akaroa, died on the 25th of November, 1902.

Mr. William Dunlop. Page 126. Mr. Dunlop was elected chairman of the Selwyn County Council, in succession to Mr. R Westenra.

Mr. Charles Llewelyn Davtes, Page 127. Mr. Davies died suddenly, whilst attending to his duties as the Selwyn County Council's water-race engineer, on the 24th of August, 1903.

Colonel W. H. Webb. Page 132. Colonel Webb is now (1903) Officer Commanding the Wellington Volunteer District.

Captain H. T. E. Hobday. Page 133. Captain Hobday retired from the service after the article about him had been printed.

Captain F. M. B. Fisher. Page 140. After his article was printed, Mr. Fisher resigned his position in the Civil Service, to become a member of the firm of Lake and Evans, Christchurch.

Colonel Jowsey. Pages 142–981. Colonel Jowsey became manager of the Canterbury Club, Christchurch, in August, 1903.

Mr. Robert Kirton. Page 146. Early in 1903 Mr. Kirton retired from the Civil Service, and the position of Chief Postmaster at Christchurch. He was succeeded by Mr. J. F. McBeth, formerly of Wanganui. Mr. McBeth's biography appears on page 1379 of the Wellington volume of this work, and his portrait at page 1380.

Mr. Thomas Humphries. Page 147. The article at page 147 had been printed off before Mr. Humpries returned its proof. Mr. Humphries joined the Government Survey Department in Taranaki, in 1857; became Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands there on the retirement of Mr. C. D. Whitcombe; served as a volunteer in the Taranaki Rifles during the Maori war of 1860–61, and was engaged, whilst a volunteer, in making surveys and plans of the field of operations.

Professor Alexander William Blockerton. Page 163. Professor Bickerton does not now (1903) hold the Chair of Chemistry and Physics at Canterbury College.

Miss Mary Ewart. Page 157. Miss Ewart was appointed Matron of the Timaru Hospital in August, 1903.

Professor John Macmillan Brown. Pages 164–165. Mrs Macmillan Brown, the first woman to take the Master of Arts degree in the British dominions, died at Rotorua on the 22nd of February, 1903.

The Very Rev. Walter Harper, Dean Of Christchurch. Page 187. Early in 1903 the Rev. Charles Walter Carrington was appointed to succeed Dean Harper as Principal of College House, connected with Christ's College.

The Rev. Charles Richard Pollock. Page 188. Mr. Pollock resigned his positions in the diocese of Christchurch, in October, 1902.

The Rev. Walter Averill. Page 190. Mr. Averill was made a Canon of Christ-church Cathedral in November, 1902.

The Rev. John Awdry Julius. Page 190. Mr. Julius is now (1903) vicar of Waikari, North Canterbury.

The Venerable Archdeacon Lingard. Page 191. In August, 1903, Archdeacon Lingard gave notice of his resignation as Vicar of St. Luke's, Christchurch, on account of failing health, and with the intention of spending the remainder of his life in Kent, England; but died on the 20th of September.

The Rev. Edward Arthur Scott. Page 193. After the demise of Archdeacons G. J. Cholmondeley and B. W. Dudley, the archdeaconries of Christchurch and Rangiora were united under the name of Christchurch, with Mr. Scott as Archdeacon.

The Rev. Arthur Hugh Norris. Page 193. Mr. Norris was appointed to the cure of Malvern in August, 1903.

From a Drawing by Miss Mary Townsend.
Showing the “Cressy,” just arrived from England.

The Rev. Henry Williams. Page 194. Mr. Williams was appointed, about the middle of 1903, to the cure of Prebbleton and Templeton in succession to the Rev. J. Blackburne, resigned, and was succeeded at page 1109 St. Matthew's, St. Albans, by the Rev. J. H. Rodgers, formerly of Malvern.

The Rev. Dr. Elmslie . Page 198. Owing to failing health, Dr. Elmslie resigned the pastorate of St. Paul's church in June, 1903. The Rev. T. Tait, of Brunswick, near Melbourne Australia, accepted a call to become Dr. Elmslie's suceessor.

Miss Emily Funston. Page 201. Miss Funston retired from the position of organist at the Roman Catholic Pro-Cathedral, Christ-church, to enter married life.

Miss Katie Young. Page 202. Mr. G. R. Fleming has succeeded Miss Young as organist at St. Mary's, Manchester Street, Christchurch.

The Rev. W. G. Parsonson. Page 203. Mr. Parsonson died on the 8th of September, 1903.

Mr. Arthur Lyon. Page 221. After his article had been printed, Mr. Lyon resigned signed his office as Master of the Hounds to the Christchurch Hunt Club; and Mr. H. R. Parkinson, who had bought Mr. Lyon's resieence, was appointed to succeed Mr. Lyon as Master.

Miss M. E. Bush. Page 228. Miss Bush left Christchurch in the middle of June, 1903, to study singing in England.

Miss Constance Lingard. Page 231. Miss Lingard returned to Christchurch in August, 1903.

Mr. Richmond Beetham. Page 243. Mr. Beetham retired from the position of Stipendiary Magistrate in Christchurch, in May, 1903, and was succeeded by Mr. W. R. Haselden, who is referred to at pages 331–475 and 564 of the Wellington volume of this Cyclopedia.

Mr. F. W. Smith-Ansted. Page 247. Mr. Simth-Ansted died on the 20th of July, 1903.

Mr. T. S. Weston. Pages 247–248. Mr. Weston resigned his position as chairman of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College in November, 1902, and was succeeded by Mr. A. E. G. Rhodes.

Mr. Herbert Erle Blyth. Page 261. Mr. Blyth was promoted to the management of a branch bank in the North Island in August, 1903.

The Canterbury Chamber Of Commerce. Page 271. The office-bearers for 1903–1904 are: President, Mr. W. D. Meares; vice-president, Mr. H. Quane; committee, Messrs E. C. Ashby, G. Anderson, E. C. Brown, W. Ballantyne, J. A. Frostick, I. Gibbs, A. Kaye, G. Lambie, R. E. McDougall, J. G. Moore, A. L. Parsons, H. G. Simms, F. Waymouth, H. Wood, and W. Wood.

Mr. Richard James Strachan Harman. Page 280. Mr. Harman died on the 26th of November, 1902.

Mr. Adolph William Bain. Page 331. Mr. Bain resigned his position in the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association in August, 1903.

Stead, George G., and Co. (George Gatonby Stead and George Joseph Fisher Palmer). Pages 344–345. Mr. Stead has retired from the firm, and the business is now (1903) carried on by Mr. Palmer.

Mr. Henry William Peryman. Page 369. Mr. Peryman was elected chairman of the North Cantorbury Education Board, at the Board's meeting on the 26th of August, 1903.

Mr. John Studholme. Page 371. Mr. Studholme died in London on the 7th of March, 1903.

Mr. Henry Tisch. Page 374. Mr. Tisch died on the 12th of July, 1903.

Sydenham Borough Council (page 380), Linwood Borough Council (page (385) and St. Albans Borough Coungil (page 389). The boroughs over which these councils had jurisdiction became wards of Greater Christchurck in the early part of the year 1903.

Mr, William Hood Gaw, formerly District Traffic Manager of the Christchurch Section of New Zealand Railways, was born in Ayrshire. Scotland, in 1846, and educated at the Glasgow High School, and brought up to mercantile life. He came to Port Chalmers in 1871 per ship “Willd Deer.” After engaging in farming pursuits for a time he joined the railway service in 1874 as clerk in the goods department in Dunedin under Mr. Conyers. Four years later Mr. Gaw was transferred to Christchurch as goods agent, where he continued till 1883, when he was appointed traffic manager at Invercargill, whence he was transterred to Dunedin in a similar position. He was appointed District Traffic Manager at Christ-church in 1890, and is now (1903) Traffic Superintendent at Dunedin.

The Christchurch Tramway Board was constituted by a special Act of Parliament in 1902. At present the district under its control comprises the city of Christ-church, the boroughs of Woolston, New Brighton, and Sumner, the road district of Spreydon, and portions of the road districts of Avon, Heathcote, Riccarton, and Halswell. Portions of other districts may be included by the Governor, if a majority of the ratepayers express a desire for inclusion. The Board consists of eight members, and there is a freehold, a rating, and a residential qualification for electors, but no distinction is made in respect to sex. The Board is empowered to levy rates, and also to borrow £250,000 in the first instance, and an additional £100,000, if it thinks fit. The consent of the ratepayers to raise the first-named sum has already been obtained. Mr. F. H. Chamberlain, the Board's engineer, has prepared a scheme for electrically working all the present tram lines, except the city and suburban, between Christchurch and New Brighton, and for extending them through the city and suburbs in various directions. For the present, the city and suburban line will be served with horses or steam. This scheme has been adopted by the Board, and arrangements are now (September, 1903) being made for carrying it out. The lines will be on the world's standard gauge, namely, 4 feet 8 1/2 inches, and the single-trolly system has been decided upon. A proposal has been made by residents of Riccarton and Sockburn to have an electric tram run into those districts. The first Board, consisting of the following members, was elected on the 22nd of January, 1903: Mr. W. Reece (chairman), the Hon. H. F. Wigram, and Messrs A. B. Morgan, H. Pearce, G. Scott, A. W. Beaven, G. G. Stead, and F. Waymouth. Mr. F. Thompson is secretary.

Mr. James Grubb, Mayor Lyttelton. Page 397. Mr. Grubb was succeeded at the election of April, 1903, by Mr. W. Radcliffe.

Mr. Paul Curtis. Page 400. Mr. Curtis in now (1903) an assistant inspector of Post Offices in the provincial district of Aucklan

The Rev. Charles Coates. Page 402. Mr. Coates was appointed to an honorary canonry in the Christchurch Cathedral, in the place of the canonry rendered vacant by the death of Canon Cotterill.

Mr. Michael Lynskey. Page 428. Mr. Lynskey retired from the public service on the 30th of June, 1903, after forty-two years of service. He was succeeded at Kaiapoi and Rangiora by Mr. A. G. Ashby, formerly clerk of the court at Riverton, Southland.

The Rev. Wynter Blathwayt. Page 448. Mr. Blathwayt resigned the charge of the Maori Mission at Kaiapoi in January, 1903.

The Rev. Alexander Doull. Page 464. Mr. Doull accepted a call about the middle of 1903 to the Presbyterian church at Otahuhu, Auckland, and was succeeded at Rangiora by the Rev. J. D. Steele, formerly of Otahuhu.

The Rev. Alfred Peters. Page 461. Mr. Peters is now (1903) stationed at Ashburton, and the article at page 464 has been superseded by that at page 820.

Mr. A. P. Tutton. Page 465. Mr. Tutton has retired from auctioneering, and the business formerly carried on by him is now in the hands of Messrs Conway Matson and Co.

Mr. Edward Allison. Page 485. Mr. Allison died on the 11th of January, 1903.

Mr. John Fraser. Page 494. Mr. Fraser was transferred to the stationmastership at Lumsden, Southland, in April, 1903.

Mr. Thomas Crowe. Page 506. Mr. Crowe died at East Oxford on the 5th of June, 1903.

Mr. James Vallance. Page 525. Mr. Vallance died on the 16th of April, 1903.

Mr. James McKenzie Brodie. Page 534. Mr. Brodie left the Amberley district in September, 1903.

Mr. John Stanton. Page 543. Mr. Stanton died on the 7th of August, 1903.

Mr. Andrew Nicol. Page 556. Mr. Nicol died on the 1st of May, 1903.

Hurunui Hotel (Richard Purchase, Proprietor), Hurunui. Mr. Purchase is a native of Worcester, England, where he was born in 1856. He came to New Zealand in the ship “Marlborough” in 1878, and has had considerable experience in hotel management; four years at Kaiapoi, one year at Timaru, and for a time at Culverden. Mr. Purchase was married in 1883 to Miss Kemp, and has one son and three daughters.

The Rev. John Edwin Blackburne. Page 654. Mr. Blackburne now (September, 1903) resides at Woodville, Hawke's Bay.

Mr. Frederick Wright, sometime of “Riversdale,” Dunsandel, was born at Tiverton, Devonshire, England, and was brought up to agriculture on his father's farm. In 1853 he came to New Zealand in the sailing ship “Mermaid,” and landed at Lyttelton. For a year or two he farmed in conjunction with his brother, and was then farming on his own account for eighteen or twenty years, at Springston, where he had a property of 400 acres. Having sold his land at Springston, he bought 700 acres in the Dunsandel district, and gave the name of “Riversdale” to his estate. There he carried on mixed farming up to the time of his death, which took place on the 16th of November, 1902. Mr. Wright paid special attention to the breeding of English Leicesters, of which he had a stud flock, and won many prizes at the Christchurch, Leeston and Ashburton shows. His reputation as a breeder led to his being asked from time to time to serve as a judge of Leicester sheep at Timaru, Dunedin, and other places. He was a member of the Dunsandel Domain Board for many years, and took a great interest in the welfare of the district. In 1867 he married Miss Aiken, eldest daughter of Mr. George Aiken, of Nelson, and six sons and four daughters were born of the union. Four of the sons are now (1903) farming on their own account, three of them being married, and one is studying at St. John's College Auckland, in preparation for the ministry of the Church of England.

The late Mr. F. Wright.

Mr. George Duncan Cameron, Stationmaster and Postmaster at Rakaia, was born in Invercargill, in 1864, and is the eldest son of the late Mr. Robert Cameron, a notice of whom appears in the Southland division of the Otago and Southland volume of this Cyclopedia. Mr. Cameron was educated at Winton, and entered the railway service in 1877, as cadet a Waipahi. Then he was stationmaster at Dipon, Makarewa, Otautau, Kingston, Riversdale, and Sawyer's Bay successively, and was transferred to Rakaia in 1900. He has been a member of the Railway Officers' Institute since its formation.

Mr. G. D. Cameron.

The Levels Estate. Page 930. The Government having bought this estate under the Land for Settlements Act, the subdivision of the property was taken in hand in August, 1903, when the settlement was re-named Rosewell.

St. Mary's Church, Geraldine, is a fine brick building, erected in 1881, to replace an old wooden church built in 1864. There is seating accommodation for 280 persons, and the average attendance is 100. There is a surpliced choir, which is accompanied by a large American organ. The church has a fine oak lectern, erected to the memory of the late Rev. J. Preston, who was vicar of the parish for twenty-eight years. Services are held twice every Sunday at St. Mary's; also at St. Thomas', Woodbury, and St. Stephen's, Peel Forest, every Sunday, and at Mount Peel and Pleasant Valley, once a month.

The Rev. Staples Hamilton, B.A., vicar of St. Mary's, Geraldine, was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1859, educated at Christ's Hospital, London, and came to New Zealand by the ship “Langston,” in 1875. He finished his course of studies at Canterbury College, where he gained his degree, and was ordained by Bishop Harper. Mr. Hamilton was first appointed curate at Sumner, near Christchurch. He subsequently spent eleven years at Leeston, and was appointed to All Saints', Hokitika, in 1894. From Hokitika he removed to Geraldine.

Mr. F. Oakley Archer. Page 971. Mr. Archer left Timaru for Melbourne on the 28th of August, 1903.

Mr. Philip Bouverie Luxmore. Page 1024. Mrs Luxmore died on the 9th of August, 1903, in her seventieth year.

Mr. Alfred Frederick Pigeon, son of Mr. A. Pigeon, was born at Addington in 1858, and was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch. He was brought up to farming on his father's farm, and worked with his father on the Meadowbank estate. This estate he subsequently managed on the retirement of his father, and in 1898 sold it to Mr. Bassett. He then bought his beautiful residence, “Roslyn,” near Timaru, where he now lives. Mr. Pigeon also owns a threshing mill, which is worked chiefly throghout the St. Andrews district. In sporting and athletic matters he takes a keen interest. He is a member of the South Canterbury Jockey Club, and of several athletic clubs; and is the holder of several cups and trophies won in athletic contests. Mr. Pigeon is a great lover of birds and animals, and on his well-appointed grounds at “Roslyn” he has kangaroos, peacocks, pheasants, game birds, doves, etc.

Mr. A. F. Pigeon's Residence.

The Rev. Henry Kinnear Lawrie. Page 1041. Mr. Lawrie resigned his charge on the 22nd of April, 1903, on account of ill-health.

Butcher, John Samuel, General Storekeeper, Queen Street, Waimate. Mr. Butcher's business was established in 1898, and is conducted in a single storey brick building, with a verandah. The shop has two show windows, and there are stables and a store behind it. Mr. Butcher, the proprietor, was born in 1864, in Waimate, where he attended school. On leaving school he became the first telegraph messenger in Waimate, and was so employed for three years. He then entered the service of Mr. L. Price, storekeeper, with whom he remained fifteen years, and was subsequently with his successor, Mr. F. Hughes, till the latter's death seven years later. As an Oddfellow Mr. Butcher has been a member of the Loyal Heart of Friendship Lodge since 1889. He was elected treasurer, and became secretary in 1893, and still holds the positions. He served for three years on the local school committee. In April, 1888, Mr. Butcher was married to a daughter of Mr. George Blackwell, of Waimate, and has three sons and four daughters.

Low, Benjamin, Farmer, Willowbridge. Mr. Low was born in Essex, England, in 1840. He became a teacher, and was, afterwards, for some time engaged in mercantile life, before coming out to Lyttelton in the ship “Soukar,” in January, 1876. Mr. Low entered the service of the Education Board, in Christchurch, and was for twenty-one years teacher in charge of the Willowby public school. He retired from the service in September, 1897, and settled at Willowbridge, where he had acquired 113 1/2 acres of rich land. Mr. Low is an old Forester, and was a member of the Order in England, but is unattached in New Zealand. During his residence in the Ashburton district he acted as an auxiliary preacher in connection with the Methodist Church, and since removing to South Canterbury he has become a recognised local preacher. He was married, in 1867, to a daughter of the late Mr. B. Harris, of Burstead, Essex, and has four daughters and one son. Mr. Low's son, Mr. H. B. Low, B.A., is second master of the Hokitika High School. The youngest daughter holds the Master of Arts degree, and was for three years connected with the staff of the Christchurch Girls' High School, but is now married to Mr. Henry Dohrmann, of Studholme.

The Hakataramea Estate is situated fourteen miles from the township of Hakataramea, and is 1650 feet above the sea level. It is the property of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, which bought it in 1864. The property comprises 30,000 acres of freehold land, and 84,000 acres of leasehold. Of the total area 14,273 acres have been cultivated, and 1500 acres are annually in turnips. Young grass is always put down with rape, upon which a large number of sheep are fattened for the export trade. A Merino stud flock was established on the estate in 1864, with sheep of pure Tasmanian Gibson blood, and the members of the flock have always been successful wherever exhibited in the show-yard. The improvements on the estate include a good dwellinghouse, with a garden, an orchard, and a plantation. There are three woolsheds. The homestead one is built of stone, and it accommodates 2500 sheep, and has floor space for twenty-four shearers, and large storage for wool, etc. There are 180 miles of fencing on the property, and thirty-one miles are rabbit-proof. Early in the year 1900 the Hakataramea Downs estate was bought by the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, and it and the Hakataramea Estate are now managed as one property.