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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 298, 14 May 1889, Page 2

Mr Thos. Mackenzie, M.H.R., has been spending the last six months in travelling round the Colony, and making acquainted with its resourc e and its rail.'” way system. While visiting the Thames Valley, he said he was very much pleased with the swamp land which he saw. He said that if they had such land in Qtago it would speedily be drained, and would realise in the open market >B6 to A 7 psr acre. It would pay to drain even for the greatly improved crops of flux that could be obtained from it. His views on the land in the King Country, as seen during his late trip there, are equally favorable. Speaking to a Press repreeenta. five he sail: “In my electorate areabout 300 sons of farmers anxious to get homesteads for themselves, but who are unable to get them in the localities where tha farms of their fa thers are situate, 'they have saved a little money, have been used to farm work from boyhood, and know how to treat land and what to expect from it. Just the class of men you want in the North. When Ire turn home I will be asked many questions as to openings for small farmers here, and, after having seen the land in tho King Country, I should have no hesitation in qdvising them. >■ “"q ll us if is opened for settlement, to try their luck there. ’ They are men who are likely to marry in Otago farmers' daughters who have been used to work in their fathers' dairies, and therefore, from their training and industry, suitable helpmeets for pioneer settlers. As soon as the King Country is opened up, you may expect to see a number of such intending settlers from Otago I have travelled some 9900 miles in the Australian Colonies, and when I looked at their poor crops and indif. ferent. soil, and compare them with what I have seen here, I am inclined to the heUaf that the Northern settlors are deficient iu energy if they do not succeed in making a good living from the land. ” An apple has been produced In Taranaki which measured 15 inches ia circumference, and weighs 11b floz. It ie said that blight is attacking tha gorse In and around Picton, and the settlors are jubilant accordingly. The White Caps are the latest opponents of the Salvation Army. They have been warned to clsar cut of Champaign] in Illiuois, under pain of” tar-snd-feathering." Now pluk and blue 100 franc notes have been issued by the Bank of Franoe, There was a rush for tho first batch, and during tha afternoon tbe number delivered exceeded 10,000. When there was a strike of carpenters in Paris recently Presidsnt Carnot, who learned that trade in his youth, received a letter from them complaining that he had not attended their meetings or subscribed to the treasury. A teacher asked a class to writs an easay on “ Tha Result ot Laelnsse," and- one ot th! bright but lasy boys In tbs dasi handed in as his Composition a blank sheet ot paper,'