Broughan, Denis, Farmer, “Willow Brook,” Blenheim. This farm of 370 acres of fine agricultural land lies close to Blenheim, and is the freehold property of Mr. Broughan. About seventy acres at the home-stead are of a swampy nature. Almost the whole of “Willow Brook” has been under the plough, and the area now annually under cultivation varies from 150 to 200 acres. For growing grain of all kinds the ground is unsurpassed, as the soil is of a light loamy nature. It seems almost impossible to exhaust it, for it has been cropped continuously for twenty years, and though hardly any artificial manures have been used, the yields have been well ahead of the average crops for the province. Portions of the land have been laid down in English grasses, and Mr. Broughan was about 300 crossbred sheep from good strains of Lincolns and English Leicesters. Mr. Broughan was born in CountryClare, Ireland, in 1839, and after being left orphans, he and his brother came to New Zealand in the ship “Constantine,” from which they landed on the 1st of January, 1854. Mr. Broughan went straight to Marlborough, which has since been his home. Originally his farm consisted of seventy acres, but he has added to it from time to time by the purchase of adjoining paddocks. Mr. Broughan has kept aloof from public affairs, and has put all his spare time into the working of his farm, which is considered one of the best of its kind in Marlborough. Mrs. Broughan is a daughter of the late Mr. Isaac Aroa, one of Blenheim's oldest settlers, who arrived in New Zealand in October, 1855, by the “Maori.”