McQuillan, Robert, Farmer, Maori Pa. Mr. McQuillan was born in County Armagh, Ireland, in 1844, and came with his parents to New Zealand in the ship “Queen of the Mersey,” in 1863. The family settled in North Canterbury, where young McQuillan was brought up to farming. Subsequently he started on his own account, and has been successfully engaged in agriculture for twenty-five years. Mr. McQuillan owns a small farm at Waikuku, and leases over 100 acres of Maori land at the pa. He has resided in the district ever since his arrival in New Zealand. In 1873 he married Miss Hamilton, also of Irish birth, and they have a surviving family of four sons and five daughters.