Mr. Arthur Waghorn, Senior, Old Colonist, was born at Dartford, Kent, England, sixteen miles from London Bridge, in 1814. For many years he sailed on the Thames in Mr. Fleming's barge. In 1850 he came out to New Zealand in the ship “Randolph” with Mr. Fleming, with whom he stayed one year at Port Levy. He then joined his two brothers in the purchase of two acres of land at Little Akaloa, to which they soon added fifty more. Mr. Waghorn then took to boating timber from the bays to Lyttelton. He purchased a sunken boat, which he raised, and brought to Pigeon Bay for repairs; it turned out to be one of the fastest boats on the coast. Later on, Mr. Waghorn remained ashore bushfelling and growing wheat, which he ground with a small steel stone, the wind supplying the motive power. That was about 1852, and Mr. Waghorn claims to have erected the first windmill in Canterbury. He also brought the first cow to Little Akaloa. Mr. Waghorn gradually increased his area to 1000 acres. The land is now occupied by his three sons, and he himself takes matters easily in the evening of his days. Mr. Waghorn has served on the road board and the school committee. He was married, in 1842, to Miss Dale, of Dartford, but in 1896, he was left a widower, with three sons and three daughters.