Mr. Lachlan Gray , for many years well known as a farmer in the Wallacetown district, was born in 1844, at Black Isle, Inverness-shire, Scotland, educated at Killearnin parish page 915 school, and brought up as a carpenter. Mr. Gray came to New Zealand with his brother Alexander, in 1865, and settled in Invercargill, where he workeh at his trade for many years. In 1886, Mr. Gray gave up his trade and settled on his farm, of 470 acres, on the Wallacetown Plains, where he resided until his death, on the 24th of January, 1895. Mr Gray was a volunteer, and when he retired he was sergeant of the artillery corps in Invercargill. He was married, in 1884, to a daughter of the late Mr. George Hall, of Galashicls, Scotland, and at his death left four sons and two daughters. Since his death the farm has been leased, and Mrs. Gray and her family reside in Wallacetown.