Stewart, Peter, Farmer, Seaview. Mr. Stewart is a native of Perthshire, Scotland, and came to New Zealand in 1859, with his parents, by the ship “Cresswell.” After residing for two years in Christchurch his father took up fifty acres of farm land at Halswell, where he remained for four years. Mr. Peter Stewart learned the trade of carpenter at Brookside, where he resided for a number of years, during six of which he was farming. On selling out he moved to Seaview, Wakanui, where he took up 360 acres, since extended to 760 acres. He was for five years and a half chairman of the Wakanui Road Board, and was for many years a member of the local school committee. Mr Stewart was married while he was at Brookside.