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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Glenary

Glenary.

Glenary District is named after the Glenary station, a large run of 100,000 acres. It is part of the electoral district of Wakatipu, and is in the Waikaia riding of the county of Southland, on the western bank of the Waikaia river. Glenary is also to the west of the township of Waikaia, and had a population of fifty at the census of 1901. Sheepfarming and sawmilling are carried on in the valley, and there is a local post office. Glenary lies prettily between snowcapped hills.

The Glenary Post Office was established in 1902, and is conducted at the homestead of Mr Robert Hutton, farmer and sawmiller. Mails are received, and despatched, every Friday.

Mr. Robert Hutton , Postmaster at Glenary, is a well-known farmer and sawmiller in the district. His property consists of 220 acres of freehold, and 105 of leasehold land, devoted to mixed farming and sawmilling. Mr Hutton was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, on the 24th of May, 1844. In 1859 he landed at Port Chalmers, by the ship “Sevilla,” from Glasgow, and settled at Waipori. He had experience in connection with gold mines, in the early days, in Otago; he was at the Dunstan “rush,” and drove Messrs Hartley and Riley, the well-known prospectors, from Waikouaiti to Black's station, Manuherikia. For several years he was employed in driving bullocks at a station on the Dunstan. Mr Hutton visited the Waiau district in 1866, and had some years of general experience in country life, before he settled at Glenary, which is at the head of the Waikaia Valley. In the early eighties, soon after settling on his property, he commenced sawmilling; the timber was drawn from the bush by his own bullock teams, in charge of his own sons. Mr Hutton was married, on the 24th of December, 1873, to a daughter of Mr James Lynch, one of the old military settlers, who took up land at Howick, near Auckland. Mrs Hutton was born on the 24th of December, 1845, and was brought by her parents in the troopship “Sir Robert De Sales,” which left the Old Country in January, 1846, and arrived at Auckland in May of that year. She was educated and brought up in the Auckland district, where she resided until 1862, when she removed to Wellington, which she left in 1871, for Southland. Mr and Mrs Hutton have a family of five sons and four daughters.

Mr. And Mrs R. Hutton.

Mr. And Mrs R. Hutton.

Murchison, Finlay Stanislaus , Sheepfarmer, “Ardnarf,” Waikaia Valley, Glenary. “Ardnarf” consists of 800 acres of Education Reserve, and is used for the grazing of Romney Marsh crossbred sheep. Mr Murchison was born in 1834, in Rossshire, Scotland, at Ardnarf, Lochalsh, after which his place is named, and was educated for the Catholic priesthood, for which he studied for eight years at Blair's College, Aberdeen. However, owing to a breakdown in his health, he embarked on the ship “Sevilla,” on her first voyage, and arrived at Port Chalmers on the 10th of November, 1859. He stayed in the Riverton district for the first few years, and was interested in farming with a brother-in-law. For some time subsequently Mr Murchison was employed in mustering and shearing in the Waiau page 1046 district and was the first white man to swim the Waiau river, at Manapouri station, about three miles below Lake Te Anau, to show shearers the way. In 1879, he settled in the Waikaia Valley, and has since been engaged in sheepfarming. Mr Murchison was married, on the 26th of April, 1876, to a daughter of the late Mr Angus McDonell, of Glengarvy, Inverness-shire, Scotland, and has five sons and three daughters.