by the difference which must necessarily exist beyween a new colony and one which like Tasmania has been long settled. Here we have an admirable macadamized road from North to South and all the farms are fenced and supplied with good buildings. On the other hand for six months in the year there is no grass on the flats in a great part of the colony. I always thought Hawkesbay the Goshen of N.Z. and still think it is so and that