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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1129, 1 December 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)

The figures that show the movement rf American population to the new farming lands of the West a. e almost startling, During the year that clrs=d with July not lass than 16,000,000 acres of Government lands were taken np by homestead entries alone, aud full? 14,000,000 acres of new lands were soli to settlrai. It is estimated that 500,000 people settled upon the new lands in 1878, and the number for the present year promises to be even greater. As an indication of the extent of salmon fishing business on the Pacific coast, the Vancouver Independent notf a the fact that during the catching season $20,000 per day are paid out to those employed in the various departments of the work. A M» inn at school of horticulture ws« opened at Versailles in 1873, and about fiftyone students attend the courses of lectures and! thW exptrime nts in cropping, the length pf tifrMywOTttida bait. I