Mr. William Parsons , sometime of Ocean Beach, the Bluff, was born in Bristol, England, where he was educated and brought up to a country life. He spent some years in the United States, and landed in Victoria in 1857. Subsequently Mr Parsons came to Southland, and was engaged in sawmilling at Stewart Island for about five years. In 1865 he settled at the Bluff, and took up fifty-three acres of bush land, which he cleared and cultivated. Mr Parsons was married, in 1864, to a daughter of the late Mr William Kennedy, of the North of Ireland, and at his death, in 1903, left page 882 six sons and four daughters. Mrs Par-sons survives her husband, and resides on the farm.