BASTIAN, CHRISTOPHER (1820-95) was born in London, and in 1822 emigrated to Tasmania with his father, who became a landowner and business man. As he grew up Bastian entered into his father's farming pursuits and also carried on a wholesale wine and spirit business in Hobart for a number of years. In 1858 he came to New Zealand, having already sent a cargo of sheep, which were landed at Bluff under the charge of his brother. He took up the Dunrobin station, and later another block of land north of Long Bush, which he called Woodstock. Bastian was a member of the Provincial Council of Southland for Aparima (1867-70) and afterwards sat in the Otago Council for Southland (1870) and for Aparima (1871-73). He was a member of the House of Representatives for Wallace in 1875. He was also a member of the Wallace county council from its formation, and for some years chairman; and he served on the Southland hospitals and charitable aid board, being one of the Southland hospital trustees at the time of his death in 1895.

Otago and Southland P.C. Proc.; Cycl. NZ., iv (p).

Reference: Volume 1, page 39

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