Mr. John Lindsay , sometime of “Burnbank,” Isla Bank, was born, in 1831, at Howood, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He was brought up on his father's farm, and afterwards spent some time at Campbelltown, in the Highlands of Scotland. Mr Lindsay came out to Victoria when a young man, and worked on the diggings till he was attracted to Gabriel's Gully, in 1861. In the following year he came to Southland, and worked at Waianiwa, and afterwards at Limestone Plains. In 1871, Mr Lindsay took up “Burnbank,” which comprises 421 acres of leasehold land. It was then in its native state, but the lessee lived to see it fully developed. Mr Lindsay was a member of the Isla Bank school committee, and was for some time a director of the Western Districts Agricultural and Pastoral Society. He was married, in 1851, to a daughter of the late Mr John Wilson, of Ayrshire, Scotland, and at his death, on the 27th of July, 1889, left three daughters and eight sons, of whom one son has since died. Mrs Lindsay survives her husband, and takes an active part in the supervision of the farm.