Stevenson, Stewart , Farmer, Waituna Farm, Waituna. Mr Stevenson was born at Donoughmore, County Down, Ireland, in 1849. He sailed for New Zealand, in 1863, by the ship “Edward Thornhill,” and landed at the Bluff in 1864. After being for some time engaged in farm work, he secured a section of forty-two acres in the Seaward Bush district, and still holds it. About 1875 he took up 172 acres a Waituna; the land was then in its natural state, but is now fully improved. Mr Stevenson married, in 1876, a daughter of Mr W. Shaw, of page 899 Mokotua, and has three sons and seven daughters. He Las been for some years a member of the Waituna school committee.