Little, Robert , Farmer, “Craigieburn Wood,” Otiake. Mr. Little was born in the parish of Eddleston, Peebles-shire, Scotland, on the 22nd of July, 1839. He was brought up as a shepherd, and found employment as such till leaving for Port Chalmers in the ship “Helcnslea” in 1883. On his arrival he entered the service of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company at Clinton, where he remained for a year before being transferred to the Clydevale station. Two years later Mr. Little was removed to Moeraki, and after seven years there, became manager of Kurow station. He left the Company, after being in its service for seventeen years, and removed to North Canterbury, where he farmed “Allandale” for three years. He was then manager successively of Mr McKellar's property at Tapanui, Otago, and Mr. A. A. McMaster's property at East Kyeburn before taking up his present property “Craigieburn Wood,” which consists of 350 acres of leasehold. Mr. Little served for seven years on the Kyeburn Licensing Committee, was for five years president of the Maniototo Agricultural and Pastoral Society, and also served on the Kyeburn school committee. He was married on the 8th of November, page 573 1867, to a daughter of Mr. S. J. T. Donaldson, of Hampden., and has had two daughters and seven sons, of whom one has died. Mrs Little was born in Edinburgh, and came out to Port Chalmers in 1860, by the ship “Lady Egidia.”