MR EARNEST TANNER IN RHODESIA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9894, 22 January 1895, Page 3

MR EARNEST TANNER IN RHODESIA.

Among the New Zealanders who have pone to pnEh their fortunes in the latest province added to the Briti?h Empire, the fertile regions of Mashonalond and Matabeleland, ia Mr E. Tanner, a member of tho welUknown I^7ke's Uay family. We learn from our enterprising joung contemporary, the Buluwayo Chronicle, that Mr Tanner passed through Buluwayo recently after un extended tour through the regions mentioned, which he had visited with o viei" of seeing for himself what prospects they offer as a farming district, From his owu point of view, that of a sheepfarmor, he considered Umtali the fiuest locality, it being a fine, healthy, moontainoas country, where sheep would thrive well, while it) had the additional advantage of being well served by the new railway. Mr Tanner appears to have been greatly impreßeei with the fertility of the soil of Mashonaland and Matafceleland, which he thonght wob rich enongh to grow anything, thought) at present tropical cropa would do better than anything else. The best land was the low-lying country close to the livers, but rv gteit deal of drainage work would have to be done before wheat) cnuld be grown. Mr Tanner considered tho new territory was a good cattle country, " and when once properly stocked, und the rank vegetation eaten down it would probably bB found that In time the present succdßslon of the Beaeons would be much modified and the ruin more evenly distributed over tho year." Cereals arid other temperate crops ciu'd then bs grown with ndvarjtnge, but for the present farmers would requite to pick and choohe plots for ploughing. Mr Tourer may be considered something of on expert on farming matters, and v.e are therefore glad, for the sake of those who are pioneeiiog iu the new country, to have so good au account of its capabilities. Bat it mußt be remembered by reßtless young New Zealanders that Rhodesia offers few, if any, ndvnDt««es that are not possessed by New Z'aliwd, while, on the other hand, this colony in some respects is much preferable as a place of residence. — Christchurch Press,