Rule, William , Farmer, “Willow Grove,” Mataura Island. Mr Rule was born in 1860, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, where he was educated and brought up to an outdoor life. He came to Port Chalmers by the ship “West-land,” in 1881, and after two years' employment in the Oamaru district, removed to Southland. Mr Rule settled at Mataura Island in 1886, and has farmed most of the time since then on his own account. “Willow Grove,” which contains 330 acres of freehold and 200 acres of leasehold land, is in a good state of cultivation, and is worked as a mixed farm. Mr Rule is a director of the local dairy factory. He was married, in 1892, to a daughter of Mr John MeCabe, of Green Island, and has three sons and four daughters.