title: Horace Bastings
text: # Horace Bastings
  
  Horace Bastings (1831–1909) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from the Southland region of New Zealand.
  
  From November 1872 to May 1874, and from May to June 1875, he served on the Executive Council of the Otago Province. He represented the Waikaia electorate from 1876 to 1879, when he retired; and from 1880 to the 1881 election, when he was defeated for Dunedin Central.
  
  