McLauchlan, William, Farmer, Craigieburn Farm, Waterton. Mr. McLauchlan has been identified with Canterbury since 1855, when he arrived at Lyttelton in the ship “Cornubia.” He was born in Perthshire, Scotland, in 1837. After remaining in Christchurch some time he went to Lincoln, where he bought a farm, which he worked for five years. Then he went to Brookside, where he farmed for twenty-five years. On the expiration of his lease he went to Waterton, in 1891, and bought his present farm of 303 acres, which has all been successfully cultivated. Mr. McLauchlan's wheat crops occasionally average forty bushels, and oats fifty bushels per acre. Mr. McLauchlan has been very successful in breeding horses. He was married, in New Zealand, to Miss Christina Sutherland, of Caithness, Scotland, and has two sons and one daughter.