Crawford, Henry Beloe , Barrister and Solicitor, Tyne Street, Oamaru. Telephone 51. P.O. Box 10. Bankers, Trust Account, Bank of New South Wales; Business Account, National Bank of New Zealand, Ltd. Agents, John Wilkinson, Zealandia Chambers, Dowling Street, and W. D. Milne, High Street, Dunedin; C. Palairet, Christchurch; Messrs Yarde and Loader, 1 Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn, W.C., London. Private residence, “Ardgowan,” midway between Oamaru and Weston. Mr. Crawford was born at “Corinella” Western-Port, Victoria, in 1860, and in a son of Captain James Field Crawford who arrived in in Lyttelton with his family in 1865, and after residing in Christchurch removed to Timaru as lessee and manager of the Timaru lightering service. He was educated, first, at Christchurch High school; then at Timaru public school and grammar school, and finally at the Oamaru District High school, which he left in December, 1876, to enter, under articles, the office of the Hon. T. W. Hislop. After serving articles for six years, and under-going examinations for barrister and solicitor, he was admitted by Mr. Justice Williams in 1882. Mr. Crawford was managing clerk for Messrs Hislop and Creagh till 1886, when he founded his practice in Oamaru. In 1887 he established a business on the Otago goldfields, and worked Central Otago from Naseby, where he and Mr. William Kerr opened an office in partnership, under the style of Crawford and Kerr. He disposed of his interest in that business in 1889 to Mr. Kerr, and retained the Oamaru practice. Mr. Crawford is solicitor to the Hampden Borough Council, the Pukeuri Dairy Factory Company, the Filleul trusts, the Anglican Church trustees, Dalzell's trustees, and other bodies, besides carrying on a practice over an area extending from Palmerston in Otago to Waimate in Canterbury, and embracing the Maerewhenua goldfields, Kurow, Hampden, and outlying districts. He also appears at Dunedin, where he takes his own Supreme Court work on both the civil and criminal sides of the Court. He acts as agent for the Imperial Fire Office, and he is an Oddfellow, attached to the Alfred Lodge, of which he is a past noble grand; he has been connected with the various athletic clubs in the district, and served for seven years as an efficient member of the I Battery New Zealand Regiment, Artillery Volunteers. Mr. Crawford was married, in 1888, at Wellington, to Jessie Borgue, second daughter of Mr. James Liddle, formerly of Bendigo, Victoria, and has two daughters and three sons.

Mr. H. B. Crawford.

Hislop And Creagh (Arthur Gethin Creagh), Barristers and Solicitors, Tyne Street, Oamaru. Telephone 13. P.O. Box 46. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand. Private residence, Wharfe Street. This well-known firm was established, in 1875, by the Hon. T. W. Hislop and the present proprietor. In 1891 Mr. Hislop retired, and since then the business has been conducted solely by Mr. Creagh. Messrs Hislop and Creagh are solicitors to the Borough Council, Harbour Board, Waitaki County Council, Hospital Trustees and the Waitaki High Schools Board. Mr. Creagh is referred to elsewhere as Crown Prosecutor for the district of Timaru and Oamaru, at Oamaru.

Lee And Grave . (Ernest Page Lee and Albert Joseph Grave), Barristers and Solicitors, Oamaru.

Stratford-Henniker, Augustus Henry Aldborough , Barrister and Solicitor, Tyne Street, Oamaru Mr. Stratford-Henniker joined the service of the Otago Provincial Government in the Provincial Engineer's office at Dunedin, in 1862, and the General Government service in January, 1863. He has been Resident Magistrate at Wellington. Wairarapa, and Thames, and spent about twenty years in the same capacity on the Otago goldfields, and at Oamaru, whence he was transferred to the Grey-Buller district and subsequently at Lawrence and Balclutha, where he was Stipendiary Magistrate and Warden. He came to Otago from Australia about the time of the first “rush,” and brought over the brigantine “Marchioness.” During his early experience in New Zealand he studied law and was admitted to the Bar by Mr. Justice Williams in 1884. Mr. Stratford-Henniker was formerly in the Royal Navy and wears medals for services in the page 527 Navy. He retired from the office of Stipendiary Magistrate at Lawrence in 1902, and then settled in Oamaru, where he established his present practice.

Newton And Borton (Heber Newton and Ivon Arnold Borton), Barristers and Solicitors, Tyno Street, Oamaru. Telephone, 58, P.O. Box, 25. Bankers, Bank of New Zealand. Private residence, Hull Street. Mr. Newton established his practice in Oamaru in 1877. In 1900 he admitted his son-in-law, Mr. J. A. Borton, into partnership, and the style of the firm is Newton and Borton. Mr. Newton was born at Kensington in 1844, and was educated principally at Prighton. He came to Lyttelton in the ship “Balaclava,” in 1863, was articled in Christchurch to Dr. C. J. Foster, LL.D., and was admitted a barrister in 1868, being the second candidate who at that time had passed the special barristers' examination. In the same year he established himself in Greymouth, where he remained till 1876. After a visit to England, which occupied a year, Mr. Newton returned to New Zealand, and settled at Oamaru. where he established his present practice. He is solicitor to the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand, Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., and the Bank of New South Wales; also to the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, New Zealand Insurance, Company, New Zealand Shipping Company, the North Otago Dairy Company, Dalgety and Co., and the North Otago Licensed Victuallers Association. Mr. Newton is also local solicitor to the Advances to Settlers office. He is a director of the member Caledonian Society, and has been a member of the committee of the Oamaru Lawn Tennis Club for ten years, and president of the Oamaru Football Club since 1893. Mr. Newton was married in 1867 to a daughter of the late Mr. Hillier, of Battersea, but in 1897 Mrs. Newton died, leaving him with one son and two daughters.

Mr. H. Newton.

Mr. Ivon Arnold Borton , Junior Partner of the firm of Newton and Borton, was born in 1871, at Oamaru, and was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, and at King Edward's School, Bromsrove, England. After managing the Maerewhenua estate near Duntroom for a few years, Mr. Borton Studied law in Dunedin, from 1897 to 1899, and was admitted as a solicitor in the latter year. Mr. Borton was married, in 1898, to a daughter of Mr. Heber Newton, of Oamaru.

O'Meagher, Joseph , Barrister and Solicitor, Thames Street, Oamaru. Mr. O'Meagher was born in the County of Tipperary. Ireland, in March, 1834. He studied law in Melbourne, Victoria, and came to Otago in March, 1862. Two years later he was admitted to the Bar in Dunedin, and after six months in that city removed to Oamaru, where he practised till December, 1885. For nine years subsequently he was in Auckland, and for three years later in Paeroa, whence he returned to Auckland, from which he removed to Oamaru in November, 1901.