Stone, Henry Joseph, Farmer, “The Sandhills” Woodend. Mr. Stone is a son of the late Mr. Samuel Stone, who came to Nelson, as a blacksmith for the New Zealand Company, by the ship “Prince of Wales,” in 1842. Mr. Stone, senior, went through the troubles of early colonial life in Nelson during the trying time when, owing to a dispute between the Imperial Government and the New Zealand Company, the settlers were almost reduced to starvation. He removed to Canterbury in 1856 and settled at “The Sandhills,” where be lived till 1896, when he died at the advanced age of eighty-nine. Mr. H. J. Stone was born at Richmond, Nelson, in 1850, and was brought up to country life, in the Kaiapoi district, by his father. His property consists of fifty-eight acres, on which he conducts mixed farming. For ten years Mr. Stone was a member of the Kaiapoi Volunteer Band. He is well known as a capital shot, and has won many prizes in that connection. As a sportsman he has also taken many trophies in connection with large game. Mr. Stone was married, in 1878, to a daughter of Mr. R. Hamlett, a very early settler, who arrived in the ship “Castle Eden” at Lyttelton, in February, 1851, and was one of the first to erect a house in Kaiapoi. Mr. and Mrs Stone's family consists of one son and three daughters.