Teddington is a farming and fruit-growing district on Banks' Peninsula, in the county of Akaroa. It is within three miles of Governor's Bay, and thirteen of Lyttelton, with which it is connected by a coach service. There is daily postal communication with Christchurch, eighteen miles distant, and the local post office has a telephone bureau. Teddington has a public school, a hotel and a blacksmith's shop. Many travellers pass through the district, which is a favourite holiday haunt with cyclists from Christchurch.

The Wheatsheaf Hotel, (Silas Knight, proprietor), Teddington. This hotel is situated at the junction of the main roads from Lyttelton, Tai Tapu, and Charteris Bay, and is the terminus of the mail coach journey from Lyttelton. It is a two-storied wooden building, was erected many years ago, and contains twelve rooms. Besides bedrooms, dining-room, kitchen, and other necessary apartments, it possesses a smoking and card room, and a private sitting-room, and many are the good words spoken by travellers and visitors concerning kindness and care received at the hands of Mr. and Mrs Knight A large stable close by affords accommodation for horses, and the paddocks attached to the hotel supply excellent grazing. The situation of the hotel, together with the reputation its present management has won it, is making the “Wheatsheaf” a favourite resting place for travellers, and a resort for picnic parties and other holiday-makers.

Mr. Silas Knight became proprietor of the Wheatsheaf Hotel in August, 1902. He is the son of a farmer, was born in Devonshire, England, in 1859, and came with his parents to Lyttelton in 1863. His father having bought property at Rolleston, he was taken thither, and, after receiving a public school education at Weedons, near Rolleston, he was trained to farming. In 1891 his father died, and shortly afterwards Mr. Knight disposed of the farm and bought property at Riccarton. This he sold in 1902, and removed into the Wheatsheaf Hotel, at Teddington, in August of the same year. Mr. Knight has been twice married; firstly, to a widow, Mrs Hughes, and secondly, in February, 1902, to Miss Dickson, daughter of the late Mr. Mark Dickson, of Westport.

“Kainshill” (T. S. Manson, manager), Teddington. This property comprises 1850 acres of freehold land, which is devoted to the rearing and fattening of crossbred sheep for the export trade.

Mr T. S. Manson, the Manager, was born on the estate in 1857, educated at Teddington, and brought up to farming by his father, the late Mr. S. Manson. He is a member of the road board, chairman of the school committee, and a vestryman in the church.

Mr. William Deans Gebbie, sometime of Burnt Hollow Estate, Teddington, was a son of the late Mr. John Gebbie, the pioneer settler of Teddington. He was born in Teddington, in 1849, and educated partly at the local public school, and partly in Christchurch. After returning to the estate, he applied himself so assiduously to farm work and to local affairs that, during his long residence at Teddington, he never once absented himself from home for more than a week at a time, and rarely for even so brief a period. He occupied a [unclear: seat on] public bodies, including the Akaroa County Council, Port Victoria Road Board, and the Teddington school committee, and was for many years a churchwarden at the local English church. Mr. Gebbie was twice married, and at this death in 1902, he left a wife and a family of seven children. At his second marriage Miss H. McIlwraith, of Waitaki, became his wife, and by her he had two daughters. Mrs Gebbie and all the family still occupy the homestead at “Burnt Hollow.”

Mr. Samuel Manson, sometime of Teddington, was one of Canterbury's earliest settlers. He was born at Caperton, Ayrshire, Scotland, and was a carpenter by trade. Mr. Manson came to the Colony in the ship “Thomas Harrison,” in 1842, with Mr. John Deans, and in 1843 he helped to build the first house on the Canterbury Plains. The house was built without nails, as these had been left in Wellington by mistake. Mr. Manson remained for two years at Riccarton, and then leased from the Maoris a piece of country which extended from Lyttelton harbour to the place now known as Teddington. He named his run “Kainshill,” and stocked it with dairy cows. Butter and cheese were made in large quantities, and sold in Wellington for transhipment to Australia. In 1850, Mr. Manson sold his dairy produce to Mr. Peacock, who kept a store in Port Cooper, now known as Lyttelton. Mr. Manson was married, in 1839, to Miss Smith, and died in 1890, leaving a family of sixteen.