INNES, DAVID (?-1865) came to Canterbury in the first years of the settlement and in 1853 was allotted 25,000 acres (later Holme and Pareora stations). He entered into partnership with William Hyde Harris, owner of Waikakahi (1855), and they worked the stations together until 1864. Then Innes and Edward Elworthy became partners. When they dissolved, Innes took the lower Pareora, of which he freeholded 15,000 acres about that time.

While returning from England in the Kensington in 1862, Innes purchased from L. Walker (q.v.) a consignment of horses which Walker considered unfit for further travel. Thus Traducer, Leotard and Mermaid (dam of Lurline) came to New Zealand. Innes was in the Provincial Council (for Pareora) from Mar to Jul 1864, being twice elected in that period. After selling his station he resided in Christchurch till his death in 1865.

Innes married (1860) Catherine Lucy, daughter of Mrs D. T. Williams. She published in 1879 a volume, Canterbury Sketches, and wrote verse and fiction for the Otago Witness and other papers up to the time of her death (on 28 Apr 1900).

Acland; Cox; C. L. Innes, op. cit.; Canterbury P.C. Proc., 1864; Lyttelton Times, 30 Apr 1900.

Reference: Volume 1, page 230

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