Boyes, Frederick Arthur, Mine Manager, Stafford Street, Hokitika. Mr. Boyes is a partner in and manager of, the well known Wheel-of-Fortune claim at Stafford, which is further referred to under the heading of Stafford. He was born in the year 1868 in Nelson, where he was educated, and brought up to commercial work. Mr. Boyes was afterwards in business in the Nelson district, for some years on his own account. He then removed to the West Coast, and for a time was connected with McLeod and Company at Ross (now McLeod's Terrace Sluicing Company). Mr. Boyes was one of the original party who started the Montezuma dredge on the North Beach. In 1904, Mr. Boyes, together with Messrs Lewis, Mcllroy and Murdoch, took over the Wheel-of-Fortune claim. He is an enthusiastic cricketer, has been a representative player in the Nelson, Marlborough, and Wanganui district, and held the batting average for two years in Wanganui. Mr. Boyes is married, and has one daughter.