Mr. William Cawthorne , the Proprietor, was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England, in 1842, and educated in South Lincolnshire. His father was a soap and candle maker, at which trade Mr Cawthorne served four years. When eighteen years of age, he emigrated to Victoria, and landed at Williamstown in July, 1859. Not being able to get work at his trade for some years, he had to take whatever employment came his way. Mr Cawthorne came to New Zealand in 1874, and worked for twelve months for Mr W. A. Tomlie, of Waiwera. Then he moved to Clinton, and commenced business in the boot trade. Two years later he went to Waipahi, page 911 where bo bought out a general store, and for seven years carried on the business with success. After that he bought a farm, and gave his attention to farming for a few years. In 1891 Mr Cawthorne went to Invercargill under agreement to work the tallow business at the Ocean Beach Freezing Works; but remained there only for a few months, at the end of which he entered into business as a butcher at the Bluff. Mr Cawthorne went back to Invercargill in 1900, and commenced a boiling-down business, to which he has added fellmongering and other branches. Mr Cawthorne was married, in 1864, at Hobart, Tasmania, to a daughter of Mr. Thomas Shore, of Mid Calder, near Edinburgh, Scotland, and has one son and four daughters. When at Clinton and Waipahi Mr Cawthorne was on the local school committees. He owns considerable property at Bluff, Invercargill, and Stewart Island. Mrs Cawthorne's father, who is ninety-four years of age, now (1901) resides in Tasmania.