Webster, Robert, House Furnisher, corner of Stafford and Woollcombe Streets, Timaru. Mr. Webster has conducted his business since 1887, and removed to his present premises in 1900. He occupies a two-storey brick building, with a large verandah. The ground floor is used as a show room, the storage rooms being on the concrete basement below. Mr. Webster was born near St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1858, and was brought up as a gardener. In 1860 he landed at Port Chalmers in the ship “Henrietta,” and found employment for eighteen months in Dunedin as a gardener. For a year afterwards he worked at his calling in Oamaru, when he returned to Dunedin, and was employed by Mr. James Rattray for some time. Mr. Webster had mining experiences at Gabriel's Gully and the Dunstan, for two years and a half, and then returned to gardening, this time in Southland. He was gardener to the late Mr. B. Rhodes, and the late Hon. John Martin, in Wellington, and, about 1871 he removed to Timaru, where he conducted a grocery business, till 1887, when he commenced his present business. Mr. Webster was married, in 1872, to Miss Cullman, sister to Mr. F. Cullman, of Timaru. This lady died page 1003 in 1887, leaving four daughters and one son. In 1890 Mr. Webster married Miss Murley, of Port Chalmers.