Miller, Thomas , Farmer, “Timboon,” Oreti Plains. Mr Miller was born on the 12th of November, 1857, in County Derry, Ireland, where he was brought up to farming. On the death of his father, which occurred when Mr Miller was only twelve years of age, he took charge of the farm and managed it for his mother till attaining the age of twenty-two. Mr Miller came to New Zealand by the ship “City of Florence,” in 1880, and was employed for four and a-half years by Mr Mclntyre, at Thornbury. In 1885, he took up land on the Timboon estate, where he was the first settler. The whole of his property was then in rough tussocks, and a considerable outlay has been necessary in tile-draining the land. Mr Miller runs 1,900 sheep on his farm, which consists of 736 acres, and is all in page 997 grass. He has been a member of the Oreti Plains school committee; is connected with the Winton branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union; and is a member of the Winton and Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Societies. In the years 1902 and 1903 Mr Miller took first and second prizes for best turnips at the Winton show. He married a daughter of Mr Alexander Jenkens, of South Hillend, in 1891. Mrs Miller died on the 8th of April, 1904, leaving two sons and three daughters.