SPECIAL SETTLEMENTS.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 86, 25 October 1879, Page 3

SPECIAL SETTLEMENTS.

"Wb lately gave somenafticiilars. gleaned, from 'the. rep%t .of .the'- Crown >Lands* Banger fori tffe>distrib tf Mr. -'Bytldeh, regarding the Kiwitea Special ' Settlement Block. *Asi^ublicT.attention\'-is'' Ijeing largely directed to the question of special^settlements^ \&- few' particulars relating to "aijother of : these blocks may pot be out of- place'.*"* " ' "" '"- *" The Banger lately inspected, the Douglas Social' -.SettXemeitil;,* Block' of^ 7000 acre^Vsitualp^betweiEfn " Sahdpn and Foxton,^ and we are^^d f "&' ! iea!rnf that bis report is, ; pn the. whole,; favorable. There '*we^ families,.: who, tboiieh^ {not settled ih ere, are represented.. They are^not at present resident v pu, the ; Block, fpr the Bimple reaspn 3bat owing to the swampy "nature of .the ground,- they have been unable as 761:^0 ctfrt-bniidihg materials oyer; it to their respe'ctiVfe* sections. The conditions have, m every : ease, been complied,- except m one direction, There are some ialf-dozen single nien. occupying sectabhsv wliereas the" .conditions are : that only .heads ; of- i arail leu shall : b'e allowed to^ settie on the block. When ta^ra oh : tlitsr point by the IJanger, .tlie*.r';'an ; B|wer was that it -fras not their fajilt that they were not v as they were. "• quite willing-^— anxious, m fact-^tp -become; Benedicts as soon as opportunity- ' offered ! The Banger having satisfied himself that those^en, being.op7.ci fide .settlers, and not speculators," hkcl comblied with the spirit of the T>ee^ of Settlement, has 'reported to that e-ffecfc, adding that a larger anmjirtt.iqf..;impr'ov3ments . has been, effected 'by them than by the married settlers .v "- The improve'mpnts are, for the. most r'-pjart^-in ; the;'.Biia'pe;-'of clearing and fencing, but little having been done as yet-in "the way 6f cultiva- #°* .•: '--12 .2 ,; 22. -y. "■ -