Wilson, Henry , Farmer, Wilson's Crossing. Mr Wilson was born in 1839, in Ayrshire, Scotland, where he was brought up to farming. He came to Port Chalmers by the ship “Jura” in 1860, and was one of the early arrivals at the Gabriel's Gully diggings. Shortly afterwards, he bought a team of horses, and commenced business as a carrier to the goldfields, and drove to the Dunstan and Wakatipu for many years. Mr Wilson afterwards acquired about 600 acres of land at Wilson's Crossing, where he grazes 1,000 sheep. He has been a breeder of English Leicester sheep and Clydesdale horses, with which he has taken both first and second prizes at the Invercargill shows. The settlement of Wilson's crossing takes its name from him.