Mr. F. G. Ewington arrived in New Zealand in 1862, by the ship “Indian Empire.” He went to Taranaki in 1863, when the Maori war broke out, and joined Colonel Nixon's mounted colonial defence force. Afterwards he went to Waikato, and was in the fight at Rangiriri. In 1866 he commenced business in Auckland as a land agent, and is still in that pursuit. Mr. Ewington is official visitor to the lunatic asylum; honorary secretary to the Benevolent Society; member of the Chamber of Commerce, Prisoners' Aid Society, and several literary societies.