Mr. William Isaac Haberfield , was born at Bristol, England, on the 3rd of June, 1815, about ten days before the Battle of Waterloo. His father, who was a captain in the Navy, brought him up to a seafaring life and apprenticed him on board a vessel sailing from London. He afterwards became a midshipman on H.M. brig “Snake,” and made his first acquaintance with the Colonies as one of the crew of a ship which brought prisoners to Van Dieman's Land. Mr. Haberfield landed in Otago in 1836, and was for a number of years engaged in whaling on the east coast of the South Island. During this period he had many curious and difficult experiences, which have been described in the Dunedin “Evening Star” of the 14th of February, 1891. In 1842 Mr. Haberfield settled at Port Moeraki. which he has since called his home. For very many years subsequently, however, he sailed in coasting vessels and suffered shipwreck on the “Rory O'More” at the Wairarapa beach, not far from the Wairarapa Lake. Mr. Haberfield lives on his freehold property of twenty-five acres known as “Clifton,” and is cared for in his declining years by his faithful partner Akari, a Maori woman, to whom he was married by the Rev. Mr. Creed in 1852.