The Work of a Pioneer.

It can truly be said of Sir Douglas Maclean that he was a pioneer in the work of settlement. The Hawke's Bay country was still in a very rough condition when his father's death threw the whole of the responsibility of a large tract of pastoral territory on his hands. During his life he saw fern and scrub give way to good pasture, rivers bridged, railways built, swamps and lagoons drained, and horse tracks become highways. He was one of the builders of modern Hawke's Bay.