Threlkeld, Philip C., “Inglewood,” Flaxton. Mr. Threlkeld was born at Milburn, Westmorland, England, in 1832. Hisfather, the Rev. Philip Threlkeld, with his father, also the Rev. Philip, together, held the living for the greater part of a century. Mr. Philip C Threlkeld was educated partly by his father, and afterwards at the grammar school of Penrith. After a few years spent in Sunderland, he sailed for the Canterbury settlement, New Zealand, in 1854. For two years he stayed with his countryman, Sir Michael le Fleming who, in partnership with Mr. Robert Jackson, owned the run extending from the site of the present town of Sheffield to Mount Torlesse and Otarama. Then Mr. Threlkeld acted as overseer for Mr. R. H. Rhodes for nearly six years, on his Purau estate. In 1862 he wen' on to land that he had bought in the Rangiora swamp, well so-named at that time, for Mr Threlkeld states that there would be little exaggeration in saying that the land was knee deep in water. Mr. Threlkeld started breeding with a good selection of Shorthorn cattle, and in 1865 visited England and purchased the nucleus of his since celebrated English Leicester flock, so well known in every part of New Zealand and also in Australia. The prizes obtained by the Inglewood flock and herd number over one thousand, including very many champions, and the prize tickets would cover a space 30 or 40 feet square. The stud flock, including those under the charge of Mr. P. C. Threlkeld, junior, at “The Terraces,” Methven, numbers 2000 breeding ewes. Mr. Threlkeld married, in 1867, a daughter of Mr. Thomas Cholmondeley, of Vale Royal, and has a family of five sons and three daughters.