Laidlaw, John , Farmer, “Law-field,” Wyndham. Mr Laidlaw was born at the farm of Loguhariot in the parish of Borthwick, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1845, educated at Dalkeith and Edinburgh, and worked as an engineer for five years before coming to New Zealand, in 1869, by the ship “Agnes Muir.” He spent two years in an, engineering establishment in Dunedin, and about 1874 took a threshing plant from Dunedin to Oamaru, and later to the Timaru district. Mr Laidlaw afterwards held a farm in the Dunedin district for a year or two before removing to Wyndam, where he and his brother, Mr Adam Laidlaw, own 613 acres of land, which is devoted to mixed farming, and sheep, pigs, and other stock are exhibited at the Wyndham show. Mr Laidlaw was a member of the Wyndham Road Board from its inception to within a short period of its amalgamation with the County Council, and he is a member of the Redan school committee, and of the Wyndham Agricultural and Pastoral Society. He married a daughter of the late Mr Graham, of Wyndham Valley, and has one son and one daughter.