Mr. William Edwards Bond, Proprietor, is a son of Mr. William Bond, of Callington, Cornwall, England. He was born in Dartmouth, Devon, in 1860, and brought up to farming. In 1878 he arrived in New Zealand by the ship “Hydaspes.” For about seven years he owned the mail coach running from Ashburton to Longbeach, and was for eight years subsequently owner of a store at Wheatstone. Mr. Bond is a man of untiring energy, and has lately been extensively engaged in the breeding of poultry and pigs. He married a daughter of Mr. Joshua Fergusson, of Belfast, and has two daughters.