Mr. William Charles Barlow , Guard on the Kingston-Gore express train, was born in 1874, at Invercargill, and educated at the North and Central Schools there. He was employed at coach painting with the late Mr W. H. Matheson for four years, and then entered the railway service as a porter at Invercargill. For some time he served as a shunter, but was promoted to be guard in February, 1902, and, two years later, was transferred to Kingston, where he now resides. Mr Barlow is attached to the Shamrock, Rose and Thistle Lodge of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, Invercargill, and was a member of the committee of the Railway Sick Benefit Society for two or three years. He was married, in 1899, to a daughter of Mr John O'Hara, of Toiro, and has one son.