Jaine, Charles, Sheepfarmer, Ruapuna. Mr. Jaine was born at Ledbury, Herefordshire, England, where he was brought up on his father's farm, and also spent some time in business in Hereford. On the 25th of March, 1881, he sailed for New Zealand by the ship “Waimea,” and landed at Wellington, but immediately transhipped to Hokitika, where he remained for six months. He then removed to Canterbury, and was for ten years in the employment of the late Mr. John Grigg, at Longbeach. Mr. Jaine left Longbeach in 1891 to take up 600 acres of Crown land at Ruapuna, under perpetual lease, and was one of the first settlers in the district to take up land on that tenure. He has expended a great amount of labour and money on the property, in clearing stones, laying off plantations, and in fencing; and the farm, which was once a desolate piece of stony ground, is now in a perfect state of cultivation. The plantations are well grown, and afford good shelter for the crops, the sheep, and the homestead, which is surrounded by well laid out grounds, a fine orchard, and a flower garden. The paddocks are subdivided with wire and standard fences, and water-races have been made by the Ashburton County Council. Mr. Jaine was elected a member of the Rangitata Road Board in 1901, and is chairman of the Ruapuna school committee.

McLauchlan, James, Farmer, “Cairn-hollow,' Ruapuna. Mr. McLauchlan was born in Strathmore, Perthshire, Scotland, and followed agriculture till he came to New Zealand in 1855, by the ship “Cornubia.” He settled first at Opawa, and subsequently joined his father and brother, who had taken up land at Lincoln, where they carried on dairying and grain growing for ten years. This farm, however, was disposed of, and another was purchased at Brookside, where they carried on dairying and cattle breeding and fattening for thirteen years. In 1878, Mr. James McLauchlan bought the first portion of his present farm at Ruapuna. He named his place “Cairnhollow,” which now consists of 500 acres of freehold and 185 acres of leasehold land. It was originally part of the Cracroft run, taken up in 1851. When the land was bought by Mr. McLauchlan it was covered with tussock and innumerable stones, which made cultivation troublesome and expensive. As the first settler at Ruapuna, Mr. McLauchlan had to combat these and many other difficulties. The ordinary Reid and Gray double, furrow plough would not stand the strain, and Mr. McLauchland devised a special plough, modelled on Reid and Gray's patent, but ploughing only one furrow. In this and in other ways he has persevered, and now his land is all cultivated and clear of stones. “Cairnhollow” is divided by substantial fences into eleven paddocks, where good crops of oats and excellent crops of rape and turnips are grown, and a large number of sheep are bred and fattened for the frozen meat trade. Mr. McLauchlan has always taken an active interest in school and church matters, and has been a member of committees for twenty years; he is also a member of the Domain and Cemetery Boards, and an elder in the Presbyterian church. He was married, in 1868, to the youngest daughter of the late Mr. Samuel McCleary, of County Down, Ireland, who came to Auckland, in 1866, in the ship “Rob Roy;” and he has two sons and twelve daughters.

Mr. and Mrs J. McLauchlan.