New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday., December 10, 1851.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 663, 10 December 1851, Page 3

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday., December 10, 1851.

The last Government Gazette contains another notice of a Land Sale at Nelson. Since the dissolution of the Company, and the reversion to the Government of the control of the Crown Lands of the Southern Province, which ought never to have been out of its hands, a considerable degree of activity has been manifested in this department. Crown titles have been issued to the majority of the Land purchasers at Nelson and more land has been sold in that Settlement by the Government during the current year than had been disposed of by the Company with their expensive establishment for many years previous. At the same time the different pastoral districts in the neighbourhood of each of the Settlements have been opened by the care of the Government to the capital and exertion of the settlers for the formation of fresh stations for stock, and it requires very little prophetic skill, on seeing the extensive preparations that are making on every side and the continual applications to Government for fresh runs, to predict a more numerous importation of Stock in the ensuing year in the Southern Settlements than has taken place in any previous year since their formation.