Long Bay Estate, Akaroa. This estate is the property of Mr. F. Narby, and contains 4000 acres. The first section was purchased in 1854 from the New Zealand Association, and the balance at different times from the Government. When bought, much of the land was covered with very heavy bush, but it is now all cleared, well fenced and subdivided. Mr. Narby first began with cattle, and carried on dairying, breeding and fattening for over thirty years. Now the estate is devoted to sheep, and large numbers of fat lambs are annually available for the export trade.

Mr. F. Narby was born in 1829 at Rouen, the ancient capital of Normandy, in France. He took to a seafaring life, and came to New Zealand in 1849, in the ship “Angelina.” After staying at Akaroa for five years he visited the goldfields of Australia and Tasmania, where he remained fourteen months, but then returned to New Zealand and purchased the first part of Long Bay estate. He had many difficulties to contend with, but he overcame them all. Mr. Narby was married, in 1857, to Miss McGee, and has eight sons and six daughters.