REPORTS ON NEW ZEALAND

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 992, 29 October 1881, Page 2

REPORTS ON NEW ZEALAND

We make the following extracts from late English news: — The deputation which went out to New Zealand last autumn for the purpose of reporting on the state of agriculture, have returned home, and express themselves thoroughly pleased with their visit. Mr. Edward Herring has already made known some of his views in connection with farming in New Zealand in an agricultural newspaper, and we have no doubt that his remarks will lead many British farmers to make up their minds—as he himself has done—to proceed to New Zealand in the spring and settle there. Mr. Herring does not advocate a wholesale emigration of English agriculturists. Speaking generally, he says men who cannot invest £lOOO onght not to trust themselves and families in the colonies, the present prices of produce being so much lower than in the past; and aa to the prospects for general laborers, they are not any better. To sum up, Mr. Herring is satisfied that both Australia and New Zealand offer every inducement to the sheep aud arable farmer of Great Britain, but the nloist climate and running streams in New Zealand will always give it the preference in an agricultural point of view. The report which Mr. Herring and his associate will make to the body of English capitalists who sent them out, will clear up some of the questions left open by the Lincolnshire delegates, Messrs. Grant and Foster, and there is no doubt that when these two documents are studied by the agricultural class throughout Great Britain, that a very large and valuable addition will be made to the English farming element already located in Australia and New Zealand.