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Mr. Henry Garland was born at Southampton, England, in June, 1830. At an early age he went to Jersey, in the Channel Islands, where he resided for fifteen years. He came to New Zealand by the ship “Canterbury,” which landed at Lyttelton, in 1864. Soon after his arrival Mr. Garland became a hotelkeeper, and was for four years proprietor of the first hotel in the Heathcote Valley, at the foot of the hills. He then bought the White Horse Hotel, in Tuam Street, Christchurch, and conducted it for about fourteen years. Mr. and Mrs Garland afterwards went to England, via America, and travelled in the East on the return journey. As a Freemason Mr. Garland was initiated in the Yarborough Lodge, Island of Jersey, and subsequently became a member of the St. Augustine Lodge in Christchurch. He married Miss Carter, of Jersey, and has a family of two sons.