Grant, John , Farmer, “Linwood,” Underwood, Wallacetown. Mr Grant was born on the 16th of January, 1840, in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was educated. He arrived at Port Chalmers in 1860, by the ship “Pladda,” and, after engaging in gold mining for three years, settled at Roslyn Bush, where he farmed for nine years. He afterwards took up a farm of 362 acres at Grove Bush, on the banks of the Makarewa river, and resided there for twenty-six years. In 1901 he left the management of the farm to his sons, and purchased forty-five acres at Wallacetown, where he has since resided. Mr Grant was a well known breeder of Ayrshire cattle and Clydesdale horses. He made frequent trips to Australia with stock of his own breeding, and other select New Zealand stock. In 1903 he took a hundred head of cattle and horses to South Africa, where he disposed of them satisfactorily. Mr Grant was for many years a director of the Invercargill Agricultural and Pastoral Society. He has been a constant exhibitor of stock, and has taken many prizes and championships, including a championship taken in Sydney in 1901 with a Shorthorn bull. During his residence in the Grove Bush district, Mr Grant was for twenty years a member of the school committee. He was married, in 1864, to a daughter of the late Mr Dougald Currie, of Islay, Scotland. His wife died, in 1885, leaving two sons and five daughters.