Linnburn is a pastoral district, most of which is occupied by the sheep station of that name. It lies on the Maniototo Plain, about ninety-eight miles north-west from Dunedin, via Waipiata, on the Otago Central railway. The nearest telegraph office is at Patearoa, ten miles distant, and there is a hotel at the Styx, near Linnburn.

Linnburn Station is in the Patearoa district in the county of Maniototo. It consists of 1400 acres of freehold and about 80,000 acres of leasehold land. The sheep, numbering about 24,000 include a stud merino flock, which is described in the New Zealand Stud Book, and there are 300 cattle of the Polled Angus breed on the station. “Linnburn” was originally occupied by the Mossrs Murison, and the present proprietor, Mr. R. M. Turnbull, entered into possession in 1862.

Cook-House, Linnburn Station. One Of The Oldest Buildings In Maniototo County.

Mr. Alexander Cameron , formerly Manager of the Linnburn Station, was born in Argyleshire, Scotland, in 1850. He came to Port Chalmers, in 1852, by the ship “Slains Castle,” and has been engaged in agricultural and pastoral pursuits all his life. He was educated at Milton and Glenore, and worked on his father's farm at Lovell's Flat till his twenty-first year, when he found employment as a shepherd on Conical Hills estate. Two years later he engaged in general work on a station, and was head shepherd for eight years. For ten years subsequently Mr. Cameron was manager of Landels estate. He entered the employment of Mr. Turnbull, of “Linnburn,” in 1897, as head shepherd, and was appointed manager of the estate in 1899. Mr. Cameron was married, in 1884, to a daughter of Mr. James Fraser, of Kaitangata, and has four daughters and one son. He is now—1904—manager of the Beaumont Station.