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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 22, 29 March 1866, Page 3

The Oharita Times gives the population of that district as under:— South Beach, 2,500; Township, 1,250 ; Saltwater River, 600 ; Lake District, 60 ; up the Waiko, (say) 40 ; Bruce and Jacksons Bay, 350. Total, 4,800. It is worthy of remark that eight out of the nine ploughs, which gained prizes at tht recent ploughing matches in Maitland, N.S.W., were made by Mr. George Sizely, of that town. The other was one of Homsleys & Son's make. — Maitland News. Exodus of Squatters. — The White Eagle takes about 3,000 sheep, four horses, and other stock to Western Australia. Two-thirds of the sheep belonging to Messrs. G. and F. Marchant, whom the recent increased valuations, with the long drought, have induced to abandon their runs in the North, and to emigrate to a country, where more liberal, pastoral recommendations are in force. We believe that these gentlemen have for some time past produced above 300 bales of wool, and raised from 5,000 te 6,000 fat sheep annually. The remaining third of tho sheep in the White Eagle are owned by Mr. Carl Rommel, who came to south Australia intending to remain, but feeling that the squatters were reguarded as an obnoxious class here, has determined to remove his capital and enterprise to a place where they are likely to be valued by the public, and to have a fair field for success left open for them. On Thursday last, Messrs. Bowman Brothers of Crystal Brook, telegraphed to say that they would go down in the White Eagle, to look at the country, and the ship was detained for a time to admit of their doing so. Two other of our young squatters, Messrs. Davis and Moorhouse, are leaving the colony for Pernanibuco, where liberal terms are offered to occupiers of waste lands. — South Australian Register.