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Rautawiri Settlement (between Temuka and Winchester, Geraldine County).—Established April. 1900. Area purchased, 113 acres and 7 perches. There are six holders, each of whom has built, and is residing and complying, the number of souls being twenty. The area in crop last season was 45 acres in grain-crop, and 28 acres in. root or green crops, and 36 aeres has been laid down in cultivated grasses. The stock included 21 head of cattle, 13 horses, and 30 pigs. The total value of improvements required is £312 7s. 6d., and the value effected £1,171 17s. 6d. The crops have suffered this year with the dry season, as in previous years from foulness of the land; but the holdings have been put into good.order, and the lessees appear, comfortable, the sections, though small, being very conveniently situated. Papaka Settlement (between Timaru and Pleasant Point, Levels County). —Established April, 1900. Area purchased, 1,561 acres 2 roods 25 perches. Number of sections occupied, 9 ; number of dwellinghouses, 9: resident population, 42. The stock carried on the settlement consists of 1,778 sheep, 55 head of cattle, 50 horses, and. 50 pigs. The area cultivated last season included 595 acres in graincrop, and 65 acres in green, and root-crops ; 744 acres have been laid down in cultivated grasses, and the balance —150 acres—in in native pasture, &c. The total value of improvements required in £2,904 18s. 5d., and the value effected £3,925. The settlement is making good progress, and is in a very satisfactory condition. Crops have been only fair, but? pastures have recovered since the late rains, and all the holdings are in good order. Punaroa Settlement (near Fairlie, Mackenzie County).—Established April, 1900. Area purchased, 7,029 acres 3 roods 5 perches. There are sixteen leaseholders in perpetuity, and one small-grazing-run holder, all of whom have erected dwellinghouses, and are residing and complying satisfactorily. The nopulation is sixty-four, and the settlement carries 7,653 sheep, 194 head of cattle, 99 horses, and 70 pigs. Not very much cropping is done, the area of grain-crop last season being only 277 acres, from which fair yields were obtained ; 622 acres was in green or root crops, 3,734 acres in cultivated grasses, and 2,388 acres in native pasture, gardens, &c. The total value of improvements required is £6,342 13s. 9d., and value effected £8,890 lis. lOd. The Ranger's report states that the settlement /s making good and substantia] progress, and the tenants are all doing well ; the smaller holders supply milk to the local creamery, and generally the settlement is a very useful and prosperous one. Lyndon No. 1 Settlement (near Waiau, Amuri County).—Established March, 1901. Area purchased, 4,243 acres 3 roods 28 perches. The number of selectors is eight, all of whom have erected dwellinghouses, and are residing, the only case of incomplete compliance being one of deficiency in value of improvements effected. The population is 51, and the stock on the settlement consists of 4,320 sheep, 33 head of cattle, and 58 horses. The lambing percentage was good, but the oat-crops, owing to the dry spring, were poor. The area under crop included 317 acres in oats, and 322 acres in green and root crops ; 2,150 acres is laid down in cultivated grasses, and the balance is in native grasses, fallow, and a small area in plantations. The total value of improvements required is £4,803 ss. 3d., and the value effected £7,709 19s. 4d. The tenants generally are doing well, but experience some difficulty from the long distance that their fat lambs have to be driven to a market. Kohika Settlement (near Otaio, Waimate County).—Established May, 1901. Area purchased, 3,864 acres 1 rood 10 perches. Number of sections occupied, 15. There are fifteen dwellinghouses, and the population of the settlement numbers fifty-seven. The stock carried includes 4,573 sheep, 154 cattle, and 116 horses. All the tenants are at present residing and complying satisfactorily, although additional improvements to a considerable extent will be needed in some cases to satisfy the requirements for the sixth year, which will terminate shortly ; the value now required is £1,446 18s. 6d., and value effected £5,746 4s. 3d. Grain-crops have been sown in 968 acres, and green or root crops in 300 acres ; plantations, gardens, &c, occupy 67 acres, and the balance of the area is in cultivated grasses. The harvest-yields have been fairly good, and the tenants are doing good work in cleaning their lands. The majority of them supply milk to local creameries, and the settlement appears to be in a prosperous condition* Tarawahi Hamlet (Workmen's Homes, at Sydenham, a Suburb of Christchurch). —Established .June, 1901. Area purchased, 31 acres 3 roods. There are twenty-four holdings, on each of which a dwellinghouse has been built, and ninety-four souls are residing in the hamlet. The total value of improvements required is £720, and the value effected £5,193 ; nearly all the holdings have gardens in good cultivation, and there are eight large greenhouses for tomato-growing. A few of the tenants keep a cow each, and all are making the most of their holdings. The general condition of the hamlet is satisfactory, and some of the houses give evidence of artistic taste and industry. Raincliff Settlement (near Fairlie, Geraldine County).—Established June, 1901. Area purchased, 745 acres 2 roods, of which 206 acres 3 roods was in plantation, now constituted a State forest. The balance is occupied as one holding, on which three souls reside. There are 600 sheep, 18 cattle, and 9 horses ; 20 acres has been in grain-crops, 10 acres in root and green crops, and 450 acres in cultivated grasses. The value of improvements required is £85 3s. Jod., and value effected £521 Is. Id. The holding is in good order, and the conditions satisfactorily fulfilled.. Puhuka Hamlet (at Washdyke, Levels County, close to Timaru). —Workmen's homes hamlet, established July, 1901. Area purchased, 39 acres 2 roods 7 perches. There are ten holders, all of whom have erected dwellinghouses, and are residing and complying satisfactorily. The population numbers thirty-four souls. The total value of improvements required is £270, and the value effected is £1,740 ss. lid. This is a very useful settlement, and is making good progress, and the Ranger notes that there is a demand in the locality for suitable holdings of not less than 5 acres each. Kaimahi Settlement (at Papanui, a Suburb of Christchurch). —Established October, 1901. Area purchased, 100 acres 2 roods 1 perch, divided into allotments of from 5 to 10 acres in extent, suitable for market-gardens or fowl-farms. There are eleven resident holders, and a total population of forty ■souls. The Riccarton Road Board has 4 acres for a gravel-pit, and the Agricultural Department has possession of 10 acres for the purpose of eradicating the growth of Californian thistle. This land was