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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 808, 2 December 1882, Page 3

D.J.C, Spring Meeting. —This fixture was continued to-day. The weather was fine. But the attendance poor, and small fields the order pi the day. The Hunter’* Plate fell to Wild Boy, Gang Awa second, Mpkaralfara third. The Agent was scratched. A Swiss Settlement in New Zealand. —Tho South Australian Register states' that “Mr Ernest Engster, the commissioner of the Swiss Court at the Adelaide Exhibition, speaks of hia vivid rocol’ection of the hospitality and kindlies* he experienced at the hands of the people of Adelaide, and goes on to say l|iat New Zealand, f with her Swissrlike scenery, silver streams, mountain lakes, sDoWrOftpped peaks,-green pastures, fertile j soil, and her kindred people,’ has charmed | him the most. He mentions that he has purchased, on behalf of a syndicate of l Swiss gentlemen, a largo block of nearly 4,000 jldreir of virgin land in Pukekohe, thirty, miles south of Auckland, on the railway to Hamilton. It is intended to , survey and sub-divide th? block, and then*"''-h&VO"' it v settled * by r industrious farmers, chiefly Swiss. He believed there is better scope > for - the hard-working, -thrifty, tillers of the soil in the colonies than in the old country. The new settlement is tdbecalled Helvetia.”