SPYING OUT THE LAND.

Dunstan Times, Issue 981, 4 February 1881, Page 3

SPYING OUT THE LAND.

Mr W illiani An lersmi L nv, who wi'l be remembered throughout the district from his late connection with (Jalloway Station, accompanied hy two gentlemm-Messrr Bronmhdl and Herring paid a hurried visit to the district during the ’week, arriving at Clyde on Monday evening, and leaving early the‘following morning. Wo did not learn the object of Mr Low, and his ' fellow travellers’ visit. Mr Low only informed ns that since they left England in 1 ft ovemhcr last, they have visited Adelaide. ! Melbourne, spent a week in Southland, and | from there procee led to the Wakatip, and ; were then e» route for Dunedin and thence ■ to Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson and the North Island, from w hence they purpose shipping back again to England. Mr , Low was in good health and spirits, and ! expressed hi nself as much please lat visiti in” the district where he had spent so many I of the younger yearn of his life, asdadthn.se ; who hid the pleasure of meeting him. The | following dippi.ig'f omi a -S Kit hern coutenii porary will so no .vli.it explain the ohj 'ct of jMr Low’s return to the Colony “By the Te Au.au, on the IS Ji instant, (says the (southland rimes ot the 19;h instant) there were lan !o 1 three gentle n m whosi advent may yet be of great import to our colony. We aliu to tc .Messrs Luv and Brooiuhall, who have come to the colony with the object oi negotiating lor a large block of land, and Mr Herring, who conies as a dele uitu from the Yorkshire farina.s to inspect and icpurt on the Britain of the .South as a field to which they may transfer their capital and skill as tillers of the soil. The two first I named gentlemen are not likely (unless our pub.ic men can induce them) in ike a long stay in Southland, but idr J. 11. Smith, who was a passenger by the Te Anau, lias captured Air Herring, and will endeavor to-day to prove to him that New l A aland is the best colony in the world, ; and Southland the best district £in it. To I tUia e“d Mr Herring win he conducted through the Western District by way of | Thornbury, O.autau, an 1 Stratliin ore to \\ niton. He has come at a most propitious time to see what Southland is capable of p ohucing, and we doubt not will be favorably impressed. Mr Luv, we understand, is a son of an old colonist of Die Nelson district, while Air Broomh ill is a sou of the gentleman of that name so well-known in connection with special settlement in the North Island,”