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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3514, 31 March 1880, Page 3

Mbbsbs Grant and Poster, the Lincolnshire delegates, made an inspection of the Xaipara districts, and leave by the outgoing San Francisco steamer. They ■tated that their impressions of New Ztaland had been most favorable, and everywhere they had been most hospitably received. In the South, however, they found all the good agricultural land had passed from the hands of the Government. Some .of the runs remained open, but the land was not the class of land they had been looking for. They were much pleased with the Waikato, and also with what they had seen of the north of Auckland. It now remained entirely with the Government whether they personally returned to settle in New Zealand. The difficulty, in the way is that having been accustomed to farm areas of a thousand acres and upwards, and having capital to bring such an area under cultivation, they find obstacles in the way of obtaining such farms from the Government. The Te Aroha block, on which they would immediately take up 15,000 acres for themselves and other Lincolnshire farmers is «urveyed in lots not exceeding three hundred acres, and it appears doubtful whether the Government will meet their views by granting larger areas. The delegates write to the press returning thanks for the genuine hospitality which they have universally received, and regretting that their obligations are so great and their time so limited that they cannot send their acknowledgments in detail.