WAIWERA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2003, 14 July 1892, Page 21

WAIWERA.

July 12.—We have lately had a visit from three gentlemen from England, who are at present taking a trip -over the Australian colonies as tourists, with a view to judging of the actual capabilities and resources of the different districts. One of them, who is an enthusiastic angler, expresses pleasure and surprise at the many resorts, and the beautiful streams and rivers abounding with fish. He called on Mr Burt, the manager of the Clinton XJonds, where, he informed me, he saw and learnt more about full than he had before known with all his reading and experience. As he contemplates laying out large ponds, &c, on his property at Home, he felt quite repaid for his •whole trip by what he saw at Clinton, and he was very grateful for the hints imparted to him by Mr Burt. Almost his last remark was that his trip to this district was really the greatest Sleasure he had experienced in all his travels, and c expressed his pleasure-at having come not only to the South Island, but to the south part of the Soutli Island. Number 2, who is a sheep farmer, was very much taken up with what he saw of the hills for sheep, and the lower-lying lands for mixed farming. Although he had previously almost made up his mind, after paying England another visit, to buy land and settle in Tasmania, he had now decided to pay us another visit before doing so, and thought it quite probable that he would come to New Zealand to settle instead of the sister colony. Being a person of means, I hope we shall see him back again, and that he will eventually settle among uv The third tourist also said he felt inclined to sever all business connections at Home and come and settle among us too. From this it will be seen that they have gone Home with a good impression of New Zealand. They all three seemed surprised at the magnitude of our national debt, and thought surely there must have been some grave mismanagement in the past at the head of affairs for us to 1)0 burdened with such a debt, considering the wonderful resources and productive nature of the country. One of the number intends, on arriving Home, to give a description of his trip to his tenantry.