Born in Fifty-Nine.

doubt r° ult^' Bti "S to m a „. T) n„ doubt, to know from the register of births, what middle-aged people of today u.ere infants Win in tlio district, the year tlio Strathallan arrived. This cj-nnotjio stated in . aU cases,. because +■ nT i lc ß s^ v "' as yPt opened until October 15th, 1859, and some South Canterbury infants, born before that date were registered at Christchurch—tor example,'Mi- A. E. G. Khodes, born' at Levels. The first child registered was three months old at the time. Mr B. Woolleombc was the registrar. Tho first page of tlio register .contains tlio following twelve names. The mother's maiden name is given in parenthesis in each case :

No. -I-—John Ingram James King, born at Otioua, July 14th, 1859, son of James King, sheen farmer,, and 1 ranees Jane King (bhrimirton). No. 2.—Charles Howard'Tripp, born at Mount Peel on Ist October, son of Charles George Trim), sheen farmer', and Ellen Shephard Tripp (Harper—adaughter of Bishop Harper). No. 3.—George Clarence Dunnage, born at Tiniaru, 2nd November, son of George Dunuagc, gentleman, and Louisa Dunnage (Bowron). No.''4.—"William Beswick, born at Timani Ist November, son of John Beswick, merchant, and Emily Beswick (Hopps).

No. 5. —Elizabeth Scarf, born at Timani, _ 24th October, daughter of Robert Scarf, labourer, and Jane Scarf (Double.)' No. (i.—Frederick AYilliam \Scvecke Jones, born at Pareora 25th November, son of "William Benjamin Jones, carpenter, and Sarah Scvecke Jones (Hughes).

No. 7.--Anna Frcdcricka Kohn, born at .Tiniaru, 2nd November, daughter of Harm Fricdrick and Cat'hrino Fridrick Kohn. .■ ,

■Wins. 8 and !1 —Kato and Maria Cox, born at Baukapuka, 27th December; daughters-of Alfred Cox, sheep owner and Mary Cox (Macpherson). No. lo. —Female child not 'named, born at Tiniaru, 2!) th December, daughter, of William Avyatt, carpenter, and Charlotte Wyatt (Campion). No. 11.—Louisa Evangeline, born at Pareora, 23rd December, daughter of AVilliam Buttcrworth, farmer, and Emma Biitterworth (Barron). ■ ■ ' . No. 12.—Henry Walden, born at Tiniaru, 3ls't December, son of Henry Walden, butcher, and Eliza Walden (Lovott).

The last two were not registered til! March 3rd, 1860.

It is well remembered bv those who survive that Captain Cain had no building in which to house his stock when lie first arrived in Tiniaru to open a store, and could only covcr.it with a tarpaulin, which he ' stripped off by day and put on again at night, and slept under it as substitute,. for; bar and bolt.

The selectors of the hill runs nia.y have pitied themselves for being too late to get a share of the more convenient ievel country; but Time has brought - consolation in the fact that to tliein or their successors tho hill runs -remniii, while the lower levelg have been annexed by a. superior :induslrial force. Cain the keeper of sheep has withstood Abel the tiller of the ground only where he had his fcejj on the everlasting hills.'