VICTORIAN MINISTER OF LANDS IN NEW ZEALAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2589, 2 December 1893, Page 4

VICTORIAN MINISTER OF LANDS IN NEW ZEALAND.

The Hon. Mr M’lntyre, Minister for Lands for Victoria (says the Otago Daily Times on Thursday), paid a visit to the Forbury racecourse on Wednesday, in company with his private secretary, Mr George Aytoun. The Minister was enraptured with the spectacle of the surrounding scenery and the unusual sight of seeing sheep grazing quietly inside the enclosure while the various events were run off. Mr M’lntyre, contrasting Forbury with Flemington, was very much pleased with the entire absence of anything in the shape of advertising hoardings, and was loud in his praises of the manner in which the whole arrangements of the club were carried out by its officials. The absence of the bookmakers and the babel they cause was quite a pleasant novelty to Mr M’lntyre. The working of the totalisator was also a fresh sight to his eyes, and after observing its operation from the outside he was taken inside the building where the modus operandi was explained to him in its entirety by Messrs Mason and Roberts and the club’s officials, with a view of his being able to speak authoritatively on the subject when the legisalion of the totalisator in Victoria is again brought forward in the Legislative Assembly, as will be the case when Parliament assembles in 1894. M’lntyre and the other gentlemen lY'nnm n "'nying him were entertained at lun- ■ th. -“"“.ft “» d coat. The Minister wi“’ for the north by express train on Friday ’ Uolllln g' He will break the jonrney at several plac.?* between Dunedin and Christchurch, in order to visit the various village and other settlements en route. He expects to leave Christchurch for Wellington on Wednesday next, thence overland to Auckland. He will be accompanied throughout his tour by Mr J. E. March, superintendent of settlements. Mr M’lntyre expects to get back to Victoria, via Sydney, about Christmas time. He expresses great satisfaction with the country and with all the officials with whom he has been brought in contact, and their readiness to place at his disposal all the information at their command bearing upon the objects of his special visit to Maorilaud.