Mr. Alexander Brown , Of Abbotsford, near Dunedin, was born in the village of Durisdeer, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and emigrated to Melbourne in 1854. Four years later he arrived in Dunedin. The first fellmongery in Otago was established by him; a business he successfully carried on for many years. Mr. Brown first leased a piece of land from the late Hon. W. H. Reynolds, and subsequently bought about 400 acres from the same owner, at £7 10s. an acre. This was the first land sold in Otago at the original price of 10s. per acre. A portion of the land was subdivided at a later date by Mr. Brown into the township of Abbotsford. In 1903 he retired from the fellmongery business in favour of his son, John Thomas Brown, and he now farms his large property of 800 acres. Mr. Brown was for some years a member of the old Kaikorai Road Board, but he has not otherwise taken an active part in public affairs. He married Miss Jane Freeman, daughter of the late William Freeman, who arrived in Dunedin in 1858, from Yorkshire, England, and, of a family of eleven, four sons and five daughters are still living.