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ANGLO-CONTINENTAL GOLD SYNDICATE Mr. JOHN GOW

BARR, LEARY AND CO CHAPMAN, JOHN ALWENT,

EVANS. ALBERT FARMERS’ AGENCY COMPANY, LTD

Mr. JAMES SMITH GRAHAM, FRANCIS

GRAHAM, THOMAS SHERLOCK OTAGO FRUIT AND PRODUCT AGENCY

THE OTAGO SYNDICATE, LTD REID, WILLIAM,

SIDEY, ARTHUR M., AND CO SIEVWRIGHT BROS

VALENTINE, HUGH SUTHERLAND WHEELER, RICHARD THOMAS,

WEIGHT, STEPHENSON AND CO BEAL. L. O., Junr

BURNSIDE, JOHN ARTHUR HISLOP, JAMES,

GARDEN AND BEGG PETRE, FRANK WILLIAM,

ANGLO-CONTINENTAL GOLD SYNDICATE. LTD. Head Office, London. Principal Office for New Zealand, Auckland; Otago Office, Colonial Bank Buildings, Princes Street, Dunedin; Mr. John Gow, Manager for Otago. This powerful British Company, who have acquired the Barewood Estate on the Otago Central Hallway, are entering energetically into the development of that property. At the present time three shafts are being sunk, each of which have reached a considerable depth. There is good reason to expect that their efforts will be successful. Fuller particulars of this company are given in the mining section of the Auckland volume.

Mr. JOHN GOW, Manager of the Anglo-Continental Gold Syndicate, Ltd., in Otago. hails from Scotland. He came out to New South Wales with his parents in 1839, and from his earliest years took a deep interest in gold mining, and was at the “Louisa Creek,” “Dirt Hole,” “Tambarura,” and Macquarie River diggings, in New South Wales a few weeks after their discovery. On the outbreak of the Victorian fields in 1852, he was at “Forest Creek,” “Bendigo,” “Ovens,” and had a claim at “Reid’s Creek,” and it was he who opened the “Eldorado” in the same district. Mr. Gow was also at the opening of the Yackandandah, and then at the famous “Woolshed,” and also at the Buckland River in the Ovens district. He came to Invercargill in 1862, and shortly afterwards joined the “rush” to the West Coast, where he worked at the “Three Mile” at Ross. and was manager of the Scandinavian Gold Mining Company’s mine. He was appointed by the Government inspector of works on the Ross road in 1872 and subsequently had charge of the Waimea Government water-race, and also of the Government water-race and sludge channel at Kumara for several years, and both of which he supervised during construction. While so employed he was also appointed assistant inspector of mines. He was afterwards removed to Nelson Creek to take charge of a large Government water-race there, and at the same time to lay off a water-race from Lake Hockstetter to the ranges on the south side of the Ahaura River. In 1891, Mr. Gow was appointed inspector of mines in Otago and held office until the 1^st of February, 1897, when he resigned his position to accept the appointment he now holds. As a member of the Craft he was initiated in Lodge Kumara, E.C. Mr. Gow was married in 1870 to a daughter of Mr. Henry Ridings, of Auckland, and has two sons and two daughters.

BARR, LEARY AND CO. (Peter Barr and Sidney Cooper Leary), Accountants, Share-brokers, and Financial Agents, New Zealand Insurance Buildings, Corner of Rattray and Crawford Streets, Dunedin. Telephone, 110. P.O. Box, 257. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand. Private residences: Mr. Barr, London Street; Mr. Leary. Melrose, Roslyn. This business was established over a quarter of a century ago by the late Mr. R. H. Leary, father of the junior partner, and was conducted by that gentleman solely till 1888, when Mr. Barr was admitted a partner, under the style of R. H. Leary and Co. Soon after the founder’s death in May, 1895, the present firm was constituted. Messrs. Barr, Leary and Co. have a large connection as public accountants and auditors. They are auditors for the Blue Spur Gold Mining Company (head office, London), the New Zealand Agricultural Company (head office. London), the Round Hill Gold Mining Company (head office. Liverpool), the Mornington Tramway Company, the Kaikorai Tram Company, the Gore Electrical Syndicate, the Milburn Lime and Cement Company, J. Macfie and Company, Ltd., Marshall and Sons, Ltd., the Tailoresses’ Union, and other bodies including many important private firms. Mr. Barr is secretary to the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce, the Dunedin City Sinking Fund Commissioners, and to the Chatto Creek Dredging Company, and Mr. Leary fills a similar position in the Roxburgh Amalgamated Mining and Sluicing .Company, Ltd. Both partners are members of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants of New Zealand, Mr. Barr having been connected with the formation of the Institute, and being now a member of the council. As sharebrokers, both partners are members of the Dunedin Stock Exchange, and in this department they transact a large business in permanent stocks and shares, as well as in mining. Having correspondents in the various New Zealand and Australian cities, they are in constant receipt of reliable information, which they are at all times ready to supply to clients. The firm are agents in Otago for the Alliance Assurance Company of Melbourne, Mr. Barr also holding the position of Public Officer to the Company in New Zealand. The partners are both natives of Dunedin, and were educated at the Otago Boys’ High School. Mr. Barr is the only son of Mr. Archibald Barr, first chief-postmaster of Otago, and his business training and career have been almost continuously in connection with the late Mr. R. H. Leary—from the time of his leaving school till that gentleman’s death. Mr. Leary, who is the eldest son of the founder of the firm, was for some months in a merchant’s office, and two years in the Bank of New Zealand, before he entered the office of his father’s firm with a view to training in the accountancy profession.

CHAPMAN, JOHN ALWENT, Stock and Share Broker, Mining and Financial Agent, Secretary of companies, and Company-Promoter, Australian Mutual Provident Society’s Buildings, 87 Princes Street, Dunedin. Private residence, Moray Place. Telephone, 397. Bankers: Bank of Australasia. Mr. Chapman is a member of the Dunedin Stock Exchange.

EVANS. ALBERT, Land, Estate, Commission Agent, and Accountant, 10 Rattray Street, Dunedin. Bankers: National Bank of New Zealand, Ltd. Private residence, “The Cave,” North-east Harbour. This business has been established since 1879. Mr. Evans is secretary to the Golden Band Gold Mining Company and to the La Mascotte Antimony Company, and registrar of the Achilles Goldfields Company, Ltd., a London company of which his father,’ Mr. F. Evans, is managing director in New Zealand. Mr. Evans was born in St. Ann’s, Cornwall, in 1853, and was educated in Victoria, where he had arrived in 1867 and was brought up to the drapery business. He settled in New Zealand in 1871, and was engaged in his trade until he established the above business. He is a member of the Masonic Order, Lodge Celtic 477, and he has also been connected with the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows and Druids Orders. Mr. Evans was married in 1876 to a daughter of the late Mr. Charles Mann, of Dunedin, and has one son and two daughters.

FARMERS’ AGENCY COMPANY, LTD., Corner of Cumberland and Police Streets, Dunedin. Directors: Messrs. E. Herbert (chairman), A. C. Begg, J. Smith, and A. Bartleman. Telephone, 506. Post Office Box, 405. Bankers: Union Bank of Australia. Mr. J. Smith, junior, manager; Mr. J. Grind-ley, accountant. This well-known company, which was founded in 1889, occupies a large single story brick building, erected on Harbour Board leasehold land. In addition to the public and private offices, there is storage accommodation for 30,000 sacks of grain. Periodical sales of grain, hides, rabbit-skins, and other produce are conducted on behalf of the company’s clients; of grain and rabbit skins each Monday, and of sheep-skins every Tuesday, both sales taking place in the Agricultural Hall. Sales of fat stock are held at Burnside every Wednesday, fortnightly sales of stock take place at Clinton and Gore, monthly sales at Middlemarsh, and irregular sales in Central Otago. The company undertake casual clearing-out sales in any part of Otago as may be required, and occasionally special land sales are held; but their business lies particularly in serving the farmers. A large trade is also done in wool, auctions being held at dates arranged during the season, at the Agricultural Hall.

Mr. JAMES SMITH, Junior, Manager of the Farmers’ Agency Company, Ltd., is a son of one of the directors, and was born in 1855 at Milton. Educated at Nelson College and the Dunedin High School, he entered mercantile life in the old Bank of Otago, and, after being a year with that institution, had some experience in a merchant’s office. Mr. Smith was for seventeen years employed in his father’s store, joined the Farmers’ agency company soon after its incorporation, and became manager in 1890. He has long taken a keen interest in agricultural and pastoral matters, has been a member of the Otago association for about eighteen years, and was its president for the year 1896-7. He has also been prominently identified with outdoor sports, and at the time of writing holds office as president of the Otago cricket association. Mr. Smith was married in 1883 to a daughter of Mr. B. Hibbard, of Timaru, and has two sons and two daughters.

GRAHAM, FRANCIS, Estate and Commission Agent, Great King Street, Dunedin. Mr. Graham was born in Greenock, Scotland, in 1845, and arrived at Port Chalmers in I860 by the ship “Pladda,” along with his parents. For some years he wrought at his trade as a painter and house decorator, and with his brother established a business in Princes Street, under the style of J. and F, Graham, from which he had to retire in 1872 owing to ill-health. Mr. Graham has resided all the time in Dunedin and has long been well known as a prominent temperance advocate. A life total-abstainer, he has promulgated his principles from the public platform and by private precept, and has been most energetic in connection with temperance organisations. He was the first worthy patriarch of the first subordinate division of the “Sons of Temperance,” and on the formation of the grand lodge, became the first grand worthy patriarch, and held this office for two terms. He is also a member of the Good Templars. In the prohibition campaign he was elected president of the Dunedin Prohibition League and still continues on the executive, being also a member of the executive of the Otago Prohibition council. In connection with Bands of Hope, he speaks and lectures with lantern illustrations as opportunity serves, seeking to educate old and young. Mr. Graham belongs to the Baptist Church, of which he is an active worker and one of the local preachers.

GRAHAM, THOMAS SHERLOCK, J.P., Public Accountant, Auditor, and Arbitrator, Stafford Chambers, Princes Street, Dunedin; Telephone 63; Bankers, Bank of Australasia. Mr. Graham, who has been well-known in the Colony for many years, was born in the Emerald Island, and was educated at a collegiate school in the South of Ireland. His career commenced as a clerk in the Provincial Bank. After several years’ service in the city of Cork, he was appointed to the Union Bank of Australia and came out to Melbourne in 1862. After some banking experience in Victoria, he was sent to Dunedin as an expert during the gold “rush,” and remained with the Bank for a few years, when he joined the firm of Bing, Harris and Co., first as manager of the business, and subsequently as partner, and as such successfully conducted the business for many years. In 1879, Mr. Graham severed his connection with the firm and joined Mr. R, A. Low in the old established firm of Heymansson, Low and Co., wholesale boot and shoe importers, and on the closing up of that business about 1892, he started as above. Mr. Graham undertakes auditing and public accountancy work, as well as arbitration and general commission agency business. he is auditor for the Dunedin city council, and for a great many important private firms. He was chairman of the chamber of commerce. He interested himself in cricket for sonic years, and is now president of the Dunedin cricket club. Mr. Graham was vice-president of the Dunedin athenaeum and mechanics’ institution, a trustee of the Benevolent Institution for some time, and now holds office as secretary of the United Districts charitable aid board, and of the hospital board. On the initiation of the Union Insurance (now Alliance) Company, Mr. Graham was managing director in Dunedin. He has interested himself in the volunteer movement, and was captain of the Dunedin Irish Rifles for some time. As a member of the Masonic Order E.C., he is district grand master of Otago and Southland, and has held that position since 1881. and is a member of several private lodges; also district grand master for the South Island of the Mark degree K.C., member of the veterans’ association San Francisco, and a 33o under the Supreme Council of Scotland. He was married in 1874 to a daughter of Mr. C. H. Kettle, who surveyed and laid out Dunedin in 1864; this lady died in 1876, leaving a daughter. Mr. Graham, in 1888, married a daughter of Mr. Low and has issue of this marriage, two sons and one daughter.

OTAGO FRUIT AND PRODUCT AGENCY (William Pryor, manager), 182 Princes Street, Dunedin; Telephone 850; Post Office Box 261; Cable Code A.B.C. Fourth edition; Bankers: National Bank of New Zealand: Manager’s private residence. St. David Street. This successful fruit and produce agency, which was established under the present management in November, 1S96, has done a good deal towards solving the difficult problem which confronted farmers and fruit-growers, as to the best way of realizing on their produce by directly reaching consumers and retailers. Having secured large central premises in Princes Street, comprising a three story brick building with floor space of close on 11,000 square feet, the manager arranged to hold sales very frequently so as to clear perishable goods promptly. During the fruit season two sales are held daily, the first at 8 a.m.. and the other at either 11 a.m. or 2.30 p.m. The quantity of fruit that passes through this agency is enormous, consignments being received from all parts of the Colony, and from Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Fiji, and the South Sea islands generally. In produce, likewise, a considerable business is transacted, and outside sales are undertaken in city, suburbs, or country. Mr. Pryor acts as general manager of the Teviot and Alexandra fruitgrowers company, to which reference is made elsewhere in this volume. From this source alone a very large quantity of the choicest of Otago grown fruit is received for the markets. Mr. Fryor was born in Dunedin in 1867, and was educated at Gar-diner’s academy. He was brought up to the fruit trade by his father, Mr. J. J. Pryor, the well-known wholesale and retail fruiterer.

THE OTAGO SYNDICATE, LTD. Head Office, 11 Cornhill, London, E.G.; Colonial Office, High Street, Dunedin. The Board of Directors of this company includes Sir Westby Percival, K.C.M.G., as its chairman, and some of the wealthiest and best known London financiers as its members. The Syndicate is, like the Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand at Reefton, and the New Zealand Exploration Company at Auckland, a subsidiary of the Exploration Company, and its object generally is to purchase and take options on mining properties in all parts of New Zealand, and to recommend to its directors in London any undertakings that require capital to develop them into paying concerns. Mr. Robert Hay, M.I.C.E., of Dunedin, is general manager and consulting engineer, and is assisted by Capi. Cradock as ‘representative from England, who is also attorney for the syndicate in New Zealand.

REID, WILLIAM, Accountant, Land, Estate, and Commission Agent, 27 Rattray Street, Dunedin; Telephone 21; Bankers, Bank of New Zealand; Private residence. Russell Street. This gentleman has been well known in Dunedin business circles for the past twenty years, during thirteen years of which time he was a partner in the printing firm of Mills, Dick and Co. Mr. Reid, who established the present business in 1891, undertakes the sale and purchase of city and country properties throughout Otago, and acts as financial agent generally, apart from his duties as an accountant and auditor. He is secretary of the Otago Caledonian society, and is more fully referred to as grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of Oddfellows of New Zealand.

SIDEY, ARTHUR M., AND CO. (Arthur Murray Sidey), Sharebrokers, Land, Estate and Financial Agents, Grand Hotel Building, High Street, Dunedin; Telephone 839 Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand; Private residence, Moray Place. This business was established in February, 1896, by the present proprietor, who is a member of the Dunedin stock exchange, and acted as secretary of the Otago stock exchange before the amalgamation of those two bodies. Messrs. Sidey and Co. have correspondents in various centres of population in New Zealand and in the leading cities of Australia. Mr. Sidey, who is a son of Mr. John Sidey, was born at “Corstorphine,” Dunedin, and was educated at the Otago Boys high school. He was for ten years in the National Bank joining the staff as a junior in Dunedin, ho soon rose to the position of teller, was subsequently transferred to Napier, and, after serving four years there, resigned in order to enter into business on his own account. Mr. Sidey was married in 1897 to a daughter of Mr. John Hall, of Auburn, Pirongia, Waikato.

SIEVWRIGHT BROS., AND CO. (Neville and George Sievwright), Auctioneers, Land, Estate, Financial and Mining Agents, Dunedin; Offices and land sale-room, 14 High Street. Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand. This business was established by the senior partner in 1892, Mr. George Sievwright joining the firm in October, 1897.

VALENTINE, HUGH SUTHERLAND, Auctioneer, Manse Street, Dunedin. Telephone, 070. Post Office Box, 318. Bankers: National Bank of New Zealand. This business was carried on by Mr. Valentine for some years in the country prior to being established in Dunedin in 1897. The large and convenient auction room forms a portion of the three-story brick warehouse erected by Messrs. Brown, Ewing and Co. Upwards of 10,000 square feet of floor space is available, two stories being in use for general sales of land, furniture, and sundries. Mr. Valentine receives large consignments of furniture, and, although the business is young, has already held many important and successful sales in this particular line. A speciality introduced by him is a weekly bicycle sale—probably the first in the Colony —which has tended to bring in a good deal of business. Another special branch is that of book sales. Further reference to Mr. Valentine is made in his capacity as an ex-member of the house of representatives.

WHEELER, RICHARD THOMAS, Junior, Accountant, Commission and Financial Agent, Colonial Mutual Buildings (second floor), Princes Street, Dunedin. Telephone, 291. Post Office Box, 294. Bankers: Bank of Australasia. Private residence, Arthur Street. Mr. Wheeler was born in 1861 in Bendigo, Victoria, and was educated at the Boys’ high school, Dunedin, having accompanied his father, Mr. R. T. Wheeler, to that city when less than a year old. He was for three years in the office of the city surveyor, and, having himself qualified as a surveyor, was afterwards employed by Messrs. Connell and Moodie, accountants and surveyors, for five years. In 1885 Mr. Wheeler established himself in business as commission agent, and also took up the management of the “Mercantile and Bankruptcy Gazette,” which was founded by his father. Five years later, on the incorporation of the Trade Auxiliary Company, be became manager for that company in Otago, and representative of the “Mercantile and Bankruptcy Gazette,” for which he still acts. He is secretary of the Golden Terrace and Matakitaki gold dredging companies, and of the New Zealand bowling association, and also honorary secretary and treasurer of the Otago golf club. Mr. Wheeler was married in 1885 to a daughter of the late Mr. David Mason, engineer, of Dunedin.

WEIGHT, STEPHENSON AND CO. (John Thomas Wright, John Stephenson. John Dove Dunn, James Armour Johnstone, and John Wright), Wool and Grain Brokers, Stock and Station Agents, Land and Estate Agents, Auctioneers, Agricultural Seed and Artificial Manure Merchants, Dunedin. Head Office, High Street. Wool and Grain Warehouses, and Horse Sale Yards, High and Maclaggan Streets. Artificial Manure store, Jetty Street Wharf. Branches, Invercargill (Mr. W. D. Hunt, manager) and Gore (Mr. H. Hay, manager). Agencies: managers in New Zealand for the Now Zealand Agricultural Company, Ltd.”s (in liquidation) Waimea Estate; managers in New Zealand for the New Zealand Mortgage and Investment Association, Ltd.’s Benmore and Waicola Estates; agents in the South Island for the .Tohnston Harvester Company’s (New York. U.S.A.) famous agricultural machinery, viz., “Bonnie” binder. “Globe” mower, etc.; agents in the South Island for Robertson’s (Oban) celebrated “Highland” sheep dip; agents for the “Challenge” agricultural seeds and artificial manures; Gear Company’s fertilisers; Coral Queen and Lady Elliott Island Guanos, etc. This firm commenced business in Dunedin in the year 1861, under the style of Wright, Robertson and Co. Mr. Stephenson joined two years later, and in 1868, upon the retirement of Mr. Robertson, the firm assumed its present title. In the business of stock and station agents, etc., it is one of the oldest established in the Colony, and has extensive trade relations not only in Otago and Southland, but all over New Zealand, and in Australia, America, and Great Britain. The firm makes advances on wool, whether for sale locally or for shipment to London, and its name is conspicuous as occupying a leading position at the annual sales held in Dunedin. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co. conduct weekly auction sales at their warehouses, of sheep and rabbit skins, hides, tallow, grain, etc.. of fat and store cattle, sheep, and pigs at the Dunedin Market (Burnside). and of horses at their own “bazaar” every Saturday. Periodical auction sales of stock are held by them at the following centres:—Wallacetown, Gore, Winton, Riversdale, Wyndham, Fortrose, Black’s, Becks, Wedderburn, Kyeburn, Shag Valley, Palmerston, etc., etc. Displenishing sales are held by arrangement. The senior member of the firm has taken considerable interest in the commercial concerns of the community, apart from his own business. Mr. Wright was at one time a director of the Colonial Hank, from which he retired in 1886; he is now one of the directors of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, Ltd., of the New Zealand Hardware Co., Ltd., and also chairman of the local board of directors of the Victoria Insurance Company, which position be has held for thirty-three years. Mr. Stephenson’s name in the auctioneering branch of the business has become a “household word” in Otago and Southland. His connection with racing in Otago is a long and honourable one, and reference to it is made elsewhere in this publication

BEAL. L. O., Junr., Civil and Mining Engineer, Land and Mine Surveyor, Dunedin. Mr. Beal commenced the practice of his profession in Dunedin about fourteen years ago having completed his articles with Mr. Robert Hay, M.I.C.E., and served as an assistant in his office for four years. Mr. Beal has a very intimate knowledge of the geology and all the auriferous formations and deposits of Otago, and has examined and reported upon almost all the reefs and sluicing and hydraulic elevating claims in Otago and Southland. He was the first to introduce gold-dredging on a large scale and for this purpose organised the original Big Beach Dredging Company on the Shotover river, and thereby demonstrated that it was not necessary for ground to be covered with water to enable it to be dredged. Mr. Beal read an interesting paper on the future of gold-dredging in Otago at the Mining Conference in connection with the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition held in Dunedin in 1889-1890, in which he pointed out that, if conducted with large and powerful dredges, it would be in the future a great factor in the raining industry. Mr. Beal has held the position of mining engineer and adviser to several English and a great many colonial gold-mining companies, and holds high references from two ex-Ministers of Mines. Mr. Beal has a thorough practical as well as scientific knowledge, and in the course of his early training occupied a portion of his time in the Otago Foundry. He held the post of lecturer on laud and mine surveying at the University of Otago, and is a member of the New Zealand Institutes of Mining Engineers and Surveyors. Mr. Beal has designed and carried out works for a great many mining companies, including water-races, hydraulic, elevating and sluicing plants, water-power machinery for quartz crushing and electric lighting, low level adits for reefing companies, batteries, cyanide plant, dredging machinery, etc. Mr. Beal had command of the Dunedin Engineers for over twelve years, and holds the rank of major in the force. He is also president of the Dunedin amateur boating club.

BURNSIDE, JOHN ARTHUR, Architect, Perpetual Trustees and Agency Buildings, corner of Rattray and Vogel Streets, Dunedin. Private residence, Vauxhall, Anderson’s Bay. Established in 1880. Mr. Burnside has made his mark as a colonial architect, having designed and erected many important buildings. As a competitor he has been very successful, having gained three first premiums offered for public competition, viz.:—£75 for the Colonial Mutual Life Offices; £50 for the Burns Monument erected in the Octagon by Mr. Robert Chapman; and £150 for the Auckland Stock Exchange in 1897, which he gained against all comers. Mr. Burnside was born in Dunedin in 1858, and was educated at local public schools and by private tutors. He was indentured to Messrs. Mason and Wales, architects of Dunedin, with whom he remained as assistant for two or three years. While serving his apprenticeship he made a very complete model of the private residence of the late Hon. R. Campbell, for the Ballarat Juvenile Industrial Exhibition, for which he carried off the medal and special prize, and also gained a medal for the same work at the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879. On commencing practice on his own account, he was entrusted with the planning and erection of the Terminus Hotel, Rattray Street, Dunedin, and on its completion undertook the building (in which his offices are situated) for the Perpetual Trustees and Agency Company, thus completing the block. In 1889, Mr. Burnside designed and erected the very handsome edifice of the Colonial Mutual Life Offices at the corner of Princes and High Streets, filling up a very awkward piece of ground to splendid advantage, his plan being accepted in Melbourne out of over thirty competitors. In churches, manses, and parsonages, Mr. Burnside has had the supervision and erection of some very fine structures. The Theological Hall, Castle Street, Dunedin, Ashburn Hall private asylum— which is heated by hot air apparatus planned in the most approved and simple method, and the City Hall, Dunedin, have been designed and completed under his supervision. Private houses from his plans and erected in town and country by Mr. Burnside are too numerous to name, but the following will suffice:—the large stone building for the late Mr. Robert Gillies, Mr. Scobie Mackenzie’s house at Waverley, Mr. George Moudy’s residence in Koyal Terrace, the dwelling of Dr. Colquhoun in High Street, Dr. McKellar’s in Pitt Street, Dr. Fleming’s at Balclutha, and the flue house in concrete, wood, and plaster, erected and completed in New Zealand woods for Professor Scott, of the university of Otago. To this list may be added the Bank of New Zealand, Lawrence, extensive additions to various Dunedin warehouses, and a large warehouse at Invercargill. Mr. Burnside, who makes a special study in the planning of houses, has been very successful both as to ingenuity and comfort. As a volunteer, he has been connected with the Otago Hussars since the corps’ formation, and has carried off prizes in rifle and other competitions. In sporting matters, he finds recreation and enjoyment in deer-stalking, and in pursuit of other game.

HISLOP, JAMES, Architect, Dowling Street, Dunedin. Telephones: office, 464; Private residence, 884. Post Office Box, 389. Bankers: National Bank of New Zealand. Private residence, Queen Street. Mr. Hislop was born in Glasgow in 1859, and accompanied his parents to the Colony in the following year in the ship “Henrietta.” He was educated at the North East Valley school and by private tutors; he subsequently served three years in the office of Messrs. Mason and Wales, architects, and afterwards two years in the Public Works department. An experience of twelve months on survey field work under the Government was most useful, Mr. Hislop being then appointed to the charge of the draughtsmen’s department of the Public Works office in Nelson. The business which he now conducts so successfully was founded in 1880 in conjunction with Mr. W. H. Terry, under the style of Hislop and Terry; the latter retired after three years and Mr. Hislop continued solely. As an architect, Mr. Hislop has designed many of the leading buildings, not only of Otago, but of many of the cities of New Zealand. The New Zealand South Seas Exhibition building (1889-90) was erected under his supervision; the tine building of the Drapery and General Importing Company, fronting Panama and Brandon Streets, Wellington, is also from his designs; and likewise the additions to the Christchurch branch of the same company. The mill and store of Messrs. Evans and Co., Timaru—one of the largest in New Zealand; Messrs. Fleming and Gilkison’s mill at Gore, the Agricultural Hall, Crawford Street, Dunedin; the Waterproof Clothing Co.’s Building in connection with Messrs. Hallenstein Bros’ New Zealand Clothing Factory, Dowling Street; Dunedin City Abattoirs, and many other large and important buildings were planned and erected by Mr. Hislop. He erected the Wesleyan church in South Dunedin, the Presbyterian Hall in North Dunedin, besides the large manse adjoining Knox church in George Street. These are but a few of the buildings erected from this well-known architect’s plans. As a bowler, Mr. Hislop has been a member of the Dunedin bowling club for thirteen years, at the time of writing holds office as president for the second term, and is president-elect of the New Zealand bowling association. In educational matters, he has long been a member of the North-East Valley school committee, of which he is chairman. He is a member of the Technical Classes association, and holds the position of honorary architect to the Otago agricultural and pastoral association. Mr. Hislop was married in 1883 to a daughter of Mr. H. H. Marsden, of Melbourne, and has two daughters and a son.

GARDEN AND BEGG (Matthew Begg, C.E.), Architects, Surveyors, Civil and Mining Engineers, Manor Place, Dunedin. Private residence, Anderson’s Bay. Established in 1880 by Mr. Frank Oakden, in conjunction with the present proprietor, the business was continued jointly till 1888, when Mr. Oakden retired and it has been carried on by Mr. Begg solely. The leading branches of work are land and mining surveying, supervision of mining work generally, and civil engineering.

PETRE, FRANK WILLIAM, Architect and Engineer, 104 Princes Street, Dunedin; Private residence, St. Clair. This well-known architect, who was born in Wellington in 1847, is a son of the late Hon. Henry Petre, who was second son of the thirteenth Baron Petre, of Thorndon Hall, Essex, formerly chairman of the New Zealand Company. Mr. F. W. Petre was educated at the Jesuit College, Mt. St. Mary’s, and at Ushaw College, Durham, England, and at Monsigneur Haprangue’s College, Boulogne, France. He served for a time on H.M.S. training ship, “Britannia,” but abandoning nil idea of a naval career, was apprenticed to Messrs. Samuda Bros., engineers and shipbuilders, Milwall, London, and afterwards was with Messrs. Cabitt and Nichols. architects, Graves Inn Road, London, and for three years studied engineering and architecture in the metropolis. Returning to New Zealand in 1872, under engagement to Messrs. Brogden and Sons, he remained in the employ of that firm till the completion of their contracts in 1875, when he established his present practice. Mr. Petre is well known as an architect, and has been specially prominent in connection with Roman Catholic Church architecture, having designed and supervised the erection, among others, of St. Joseph’s cathedral, Dunedin; St. Patrick’s church, South Dunedin, church of the Sacred Heart, North East Valley, Catholic church at Lawrence, the Basilica, Oamaru, the Dominican convent, Dunedin, Convent of the Sacred Heart and the Mount Magdala Home, at Christchurch, a large stone church at Queenstown, besides many other churches, convents, and schools in the South Island. At the time of writing, Mr. Petre has eight ecclesiastical edifices in process of erection. The splendid building of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, in Cathedral Square, and Messrs. Lewis and Gould’s offices in Hereford Street, Christchurch, the Provident and Industrial Insurance Company’s building and Messrs. Murray, Roberts and Co.’s offices in Bond Street, Dunedin, are also after his designs. He has erected a large number of private residences at St. Glair, and in other parts of Dunedin and environs, including Mr. E. B. Cargill’s residence, “The Cliffs,” and Mr. Joachim’s house at Mornington. Mr. Petre introduced the old English style of house in timber and concrete, of which the residence of the late Mr. Lewis in Christchurch is a flue sample. It may also be mentioned that Mr. Petre designed and erected the late Bishop Moran’s monument and the Mortuary Chapel, also the late Judge Chapman’s house, which was one of the flrst concrete houses erected in Australasia. Mr. Petre was married in 1880 to a daughter of Mr. E. B. Cargill, and has four sons and five daughters

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