Brown, John Wylie , Saddler and Hairdresser, Limehills. Mr Brown was born at Queenscliff, Victoria in 1857, came to Invercargill in 1864, and after leaving school served four years and a-half as a compositor in the printing office of the “News.” He then learned the saddlery trade with his father, the late Mr Colin Brown, with whom he remained for five years, and afterwards served successively for two years in Dunedin, three years with Mason Struthers and Co., Christchurch, four years as manager for Mr Kilpatrick, of Blenheim, and seven years with Mr William Wiggins, saddler, Wellington, before opening his present premises at Limehills in 1895. Mr Brown carries on a general saddlery and harnessmaking business, making a specialty of saddles; and he has on many occasions been a prize-taker for harness and saddles at Invercargill shows. He is local agent for the Royal Insurance Company, a steward of the Centre Bush Hack Racing Club, and a member of the Limehills Rifle Club and Cricket Club; and he was for some years a member of the old Invercargill Band, and also of the Southland Hussars. Mr Brown was married, in 1892, to a daughter of Mr E. J. T. Price, contractor, Wellington, and has two daughters and one son.