The Rev. William Douglas, M.A., Minister of the Presbyterian Church, in Hokitika, was born in Argyllshire, Scotland. He was educated at the Grammar School at Greenock, and graduated at the Glasgow University. Mr. Douglas afterwards came to New Zealand, and arrived at Port Chalmers on New Year's Day, 1874, by the ship “City of Dunedin.” He was appointed to the charge of Akaroa, Banks' Peninsula, and in the year 1881 received his present appointment.