The Hon. James Alexander Bonar was called to the Legislative Council in June, 1868, and continued a member until he died on the 7th of November, 1901. He is referred to in another article as the first and only Superintendent of the province of Westland.

The Hon. William Gisborne was a member of the Legislative Council in the sixties, and in 1877 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives for Grey. In 1886, he was appointed a member of the New Zealand Commission for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. Mr. Gisborne is more fully referred to at page 71 of the Wellington volume of this Cyclopedia.

The Hon. Herman H. Lahmann, formerly a member of the Legislative Council for Westland, was appointed in the year 1872, and held office until his death in 1890. He had previously been a member of the original Westland County Council, of which he was elected chairman in 1872, and held the position until that system of Government was superseded by the inauguration of the provincial system.

The Honourable James Kerr was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1892. During the time he was in the Council he supported the Old Age Pensions Bill, the Factories Bill, and the Advances to Settlers Bill. Mr. Kerr opposed the Alcoholic Liquors Sales Control Bill. Prior to entering the Legislative Council. Mr. Kerr was prominent in local politics, and was for many years a borough councillor. He was also a member of the Greymouth Harbour Board, Education, Board, etc. Mr. Kerr died on the 25th of August, 1901.

The late Hon. J. Kerr.

The Right Honourable Richard John Seddon , who sits for Westland in the House of Representatives, was first returned to Parliament in the year 1879, as one of the two members for Hokitika. He served the Hokitika district until 1881, and was returned as the first member for the new electorate of Kumara in 1882. On the 24th of January, 1891, he became Minister of Public Works in the Administration of Mr. John Ballance, who died on the 27th of April, 1893, and was succeeded in the Premiership by Mr. Seddon on the 1st of May. Mr. Seddon still (December, 1905) holds that office. He was made a member of the Privy Council of Great Britain in 1897. Mr. Seddon is further referred to at pages 40, 41, and 42 of the Wellington volume of this Cyclopedia.

The Honourable Arthur Robert Guinness , Member of the House of Representatives for Grey, has represented the electorate since the 22nd of July, 1884. He was Chairman of Committees for ten years, and was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives in June, 1903. Mr. page 483 Guinness is further referred to as a member of the firm of Guinness and Kitchingham, solicitors.

The Hon. A. R. Guinness.

Mr. Edmund Barff was returned a member of the House of Representatives for the Westland constituency, in 1863, held office until 1870, and was re-elected in 1876. As a miner, Mr. Barff made a good representative of the goldfields of the West Coast, and was generally known in politics as the framer of the Mining Act of 1877, known as Barff's Act. This act has since served as a basis for other mining legislation.

Mr. William Sefton Moorhouse was a member for Westland in the House of Representatives from 1866 to 1867. He is further referred to as the champion of the Lyttelton tunnel, and as Superintendent of Canterbury, at pages 37, 38, and 93, of the Canterbury volume of this Cyclopedia.

Mr. Thomas Alfred Sneyd Kynnersley was returned for North Westland to the House of Representatives in 1870. He was at one time a goldfields warden and magistrate, and was stationed at Westport. At the time of the Fenian riots at Addison's Flat, he displayed great judgment and discretion, and was the means of averting trouble which otherwise might have resulted in bloodshed.

Mr. John White was a member of the House of Representatives in the years 1871–1875. He represented the Hokitika electorate at the time when that constituency returned two members, and was an energetic representative. Mr. White was well known as a shipping agent, and for some time represented the old Panama Company at Hokitika. For a number of years he was a member of the Hokitika Borough Council.

Mr. George Henry Tribe was returned to the House of Representatives by the electors of Ross, in 1871, and served his constituency until the year 1876. He was well known as a staunch advocate of the mining industry. Mr. Tribe resided chiefly in Wellington after his election, and died there many years ago.

Mr. Charles Edward Button represented Hokitika in the House of Representatives in the years 1876 and 1877. In 1868, he was elected to a seat on the Westland County Council, and about the same time was chosen Mayor of Hokitika. As a member of the County Council, Mr. Button was useful in frustrating two or three bare-faced attempts at political jobbery. A few years later, he was induced to stand for Parliament. Notwithstanding his success at the poll, he resigned after the second session (1877) rather than continue the representative of a constituency which favoured a party he felt bound to oppose. He is further referred to on pages 110 and 111 of the Auckland volume of this Cyclopedia.

Mr. Seymour Thorne George represented Hokitika in the House of Representatives during the years 1878 and 1879. He also sat for Rodney, a North Island constituency, from 1880 to 1884. Mr. George, who is a nephew of the late Sir George Grey, was called to the Legislative Council on the 22nd of June, 1903.

Mr. James Bickerton Fisher was returned to the House of Representatives, for the Buller constituency, in the year 1879, and served his electorate until 1881. He is more fully referred to at page 245 of the Canterbury volume of this work.

Mr. Robert C. Reid represented Westland in the House of Representatives from 1879 to 1881. He was the proprietor and editor of the “West Coast Times,” and issued a well illustrated volume entitled “The Golden Coast.”

Mr. George Gerald Fitzgerald represented a Westland constituency from 1882 to 1884. He was for some years Resident Magistrate at Hokitika, with jurisdiction throughout Westland. Mr. Fitzgerald was also well known as a journalist in Invercargill, and in the year 1862, in partnership with others, he founded the “Southland Times,” with which he was intimately connected for some time. He was afterwards editor of the “Timaru Herald,” and died at Timaru. He was a brother of Mr. J. E. Fitzgerald, sometime Auditor-General of New Zealand.

Mr. John Bevan , J.P., who represented Hokitika in the House of Representatives from 1884 to 1887, was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, in 1837, and educated at the Jersey Grammar School. He emigrated to Victoria in 1857, and came to New Zealand nine years later. As representative for Hokitika, Mr. Bevan was instrumental in obtaining a grant of 500 acres of land on the shores of Lake Mahinapua for the Old Men's Home. Mr. Bevan was also a member and chairman of the Hokitika Education Board for many years, being the Government representative on that body. He was a commissioner for thirteen years on the Westland Waste Lands Board, and has also identified himself with other local bodies of the district.

Mr. William Hill Harrison was a member of the House of Representatives for the Grey electorate from 1868 to 1870, and from 1871 to 1875. He was the first editor of the “Grey River Argus,” owned by Messrs Kerr, Arnott, and Co., and his cultivated intelligence, and his lucid literary style made the paper one of the best in New Zealand during his editorship. Mr. Harrison was a progressive politician and a fluent speaker, and took a special interest in the amendment of the Land Laws. Owing to his outspokenness in recommending Point Elizabeth as a proper site for a harbour for the district, and advocating the construction of harbour works by prison labour, and that a central prison for the colony should be established there, Mr. Harrison was rejected by the electors of Grey.

Mr. Martin Kennedy was returned to the House of Representatives for the Grey electoral district in the year 1876, but resigned in the following year. He is further referred to in the Wellington volume of this Cyclopedia, at pages 508–9.

Mr. Charles Woolcock represented the constituency of Greymouth in the House of Representatives, from 1876 until 1879. He was known as a merchant in the district, and is still remembered as having made a stir in the House on the question of the incidence of taxation.

Mr. Edward Masters represented Grey Valley in the House of Representatives during 1879–1880. He was born in London, England, in the year 1839, and arrived in Australia with his parents in 1849. Mr. Masters afterwards came to New Zealand, settled on the West Coast, and in conjunction with the late Mr. Forsyth established the business now (1905) carried on by Messrs Forsyth and McKay. As a public man and a private citizen, Mr. Masters did much to forward the interests of the West Coast, and he was much respected. He is further referred to as a former Mayor of Greymouth.

Mr. Thomas Shailer Weston was elected to the House of Representatives for the Grey electorate in the year 1881. In the following year the district was divided, and Mr. Weston stood for Inangahua, for which he was returned; but he resigned his seat in 1883, in order to attend to his private business. Mr. Weston is further referred to at pages 247–8 of the Canterbury volume of this Cyclopedia.

Mr. Joseph Petrie was a member of the House of Representatives for Grey, from 1882 to 1884. He stood for the district at the general election of 1905, and at the polls on the 6th of December, he received fully 2,600 votes. Mr. Petrie is further referred to as a member of the Greymouth Borough Council.