Addinell, John, Farmer, “Stonycroft,” West Eyreton. Mr. Addinell was born of Yorkshire parents, in London, in 1842, and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. He arrived in the Colony in 1861 in the ship “Sir George Pollock,” landing in Nelson. After a short stay there he removed to Canterbury, and took up his first land at Waimate in 1863, near Willow Bridge Farm, where he was settled for twelve years. He took a trip Home in 1876 via Melbourne, and returned in 1878, when he purchased his present farm of 662 acres at West Eyreton. He revisited England in 1887 in the s.s. “Arawa,” returning to the Colony in the same year by the s.s. “Ruapehu.” Mr. Addinell was chairman of the West Eyreton Road Board for twenty-one years, and was also chairman of the school committee. He was married, in 1884, to Miss Horrell, and has three daughters.