OPENING OF LAND IN STRATH TAIERI.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 317, 26 March 1875, Page 2

OPENING OF LAND IN STRATH TAIERI.

The following memorial has been in circulation in Naseby during the week, and is being largely signed :

To the Honorable the Provincial Council of OtagOj in Council assembled, The memorial of the undersigned - . .residents and others tempora- ' rily settled in the neighbor- -•'■>. hood of Hyde, , . Humbly shewetli: '

Thafc the prosperity of your ists is bound up. with the opening of tho Crown lands in Strathtaieri to bona fids ' agricultural settlers. r That Strathtaieri is eminently adapted to provide homes . for your "memorialists, and the thousands of immigrants at present being attracted to the Colony of New Zealand.

That, with the exception of the small block lately surveyed'across the Taieri on the.Peep Dell run, all of which will be immediately .taken, up, no land is apento those who are most d'esirious of becoming permanent settlers in the.Strath. That the Provincial Government, recognising the reasonableness of your memorialists petition, have agreed to recoranjend. to your Honorable' Council-'-the opening of a block of 5000 ones on Mr. Main s run, four miles below Hyde, in such a situation as to bo near the main road or railway which ultimately mu3fc open up the whole valley of the Taieri. Many'of your memorialists, having embarked all their fortunes in the Hyde district, are confident your Honorable Council will accede to the Government proposals, which, while rewarding them for their enterprise, will additionally offer prospects to many hundreds of families who for some time to come, may be introduced into Otago.

And yonr memorialists," as in duty bound, will ever pray.'&c., &e.