Waikerikikeri Station. —This is the property of Mr. Alexander F. Roberts, son of Mr. James Roberts, C.E., who came out to the Colony in 1855, to join his cousin, Mr. John Watson, and followed his profession. He died in 1881, leaving one son and four married daughters—Mrs Anson, Mrs Snow, Mrs Buchanan, and Mrs Buckley. Mr. Roberts was born at Akaroa, and educated at Malvern College, England, On returning to the Colony he farmed for a few years with his cousin, Mr Arthur Lyon, of German Bay. He purchased “Waikerikikeri” in 1886, when only about 400 acres of the total area of 3000 acres had been cleared; but he at once went on with the felling of the balance, and at one time had as many as fifty men employed in felling, sawmilling, fencing, etc. Twenty miles of fencing were erected in a few years, though the estate is bounded by the sea on one side. The sheep kept by Mr. Roberts are of the Lincoln-Leicester breed, and a large number of fat lambs are annually available for the export trade. Shorthorn cattle are first favourites on the estate, and Mr. Roberts has owned and bred a number of good horses, including “Merry Bachelor” and “Renfrew Jock.” He has been a successful exhibitor of horses during recent years. At the Peninsula Show he won the first prizes for horses up to fourteen stone and eighteen stone, the only prize for a hillside team, and first for a lady's hack; and at the Christchurch Metropolitan Show he won two first prizes. The chief products of the estate are wool, beef, mutton and grass-seed. Mr. Roberts has been a member of the County Council, of the Canterbury and Peninsula Agricultural and Pastoral Associations, president of the Le Bon's Football Club, and vice-president of the Le Bon's Swimming Club. In 1879 he was married to Miss Moorhouse.