INTRODUCTION OF VICTORIAN CAPITAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 315, 13 October 1875, Page 2

INTRODUCTION OF VICTORIAN CAPITAL.

Amongst the passengers who proceeded to Tauranga by the RoWeria on last Saturday evening, were some gentlemen from Victoria, who are anxious to obtain some ‘ suitable blocks for a number of well-to-do settjexs -iu that colony, and who are anxious to settle in this province. The General Government, we understand, i have made reasonable offers to the representative of these settlers, and in all probability, before-the examiners return, they will choose the necessary blocks. Some short time since Mr. Wylie, who is the able representative sent over here, succeeded in obtaining a promise of 10,000 acres of land in the Taranaki province from the Waste Lands Board there, but as the number of his patrons are so considejtubjfe itris toqtfat all improbable that if he succeeds in one instance, especially in securing good land for persons who thoroughly understand its cultivation and have ample means of bringing it into a growing and producing state, we may reasonably suppose that we will be favored with the introduction of a body of first class settlers from one of our adjacent colonies, which will not only add to the permanent prosperity of the North Island, but very largely assist in making it one of the most attractive fields for settlement' in the whole Southern Jhemisphere. We have been in communication with Mr. Wylie, and he expresses himself as being highly pleased with the treatment and liberality of both the General and Provincial Government s, and specially with the obliging official courteous treatn.ent which he received at the hands of Mr. Sinclair, of the Confiscated Lands Department, and Mr. Tole the Commissioner of Crown and Waste Lands for the province. Mr. Wylie has already appointed a local agent to aid him in his undertaking, So that ere long we may reasonably expect a first instalment of our Victorian settlers. — Auckland Star, October 4th.