VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 5196, 17 July 1891, Page 3

VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

Mr Luyo, M.L.A., of tho firm of M'Ghio, Luya and Co,, Brisbane, has started a sohemo which promiaos to bo a great success. Tho now settlement is locnted about ninety miles norl hof Brisbane. Tho hind sot apart, for tho oxporimont is rich scrub land, with a lurco vno'i running through it, situatod ou tho nhorcfl of tho Oootharaba lake, and about a mile and a. half from the soa. Tho condition undor which the land is taken up are as follow :— Tho firm agree to lot tho land m 40-ucro blocks for a period of seven yoara on a clearing lease, with the right to purchase at any time during tho ourronoy of the loaao, provided tbo land is cleared and cultivated Tho farmer is provided with rations, Biioh as tea, flour, and sugar, with tools and implements, and five oows. The farmers agree to Bottle on the land, dear aud oultivato it to the Batiafaction of the oompauy, arid to pay out of their first or »econd crops for the »toroa and implemontß with which they bavo beon supplied with 8 por cent interest added, together with la por acre por annum rent, tho maximum prico of tbe Innd to be fixed »t £5 per aore. Tho ocoupior also agrees to tako caro of tho oatljo. The tononfcsaro provided with houseroom until they build houses of theii' own, and the firm havo offored a prisse of £30 ta the man who, first gots 10 aores of land proporly clo<ircdand cultivated. Boforo the agreement ib entered into, Mr Luya insists that tho mon bIuiII go up and soo the Inud, and ho gives thorn a paaango m hia atoamer froo of charge. If thoy a^roo to tho conditions thoir families aro also to receive freo passages. Although tho aohomo wos 1 only started m March lost, there aro fourteen families m tho settlement, and two othor families aro going up m the courao of a fow days, When tho farmers raiao thoir produoe, it ia tho intention of tho firm to bring it down to Brisbane and Bolt it on their wharf. Tho freight will bo oho«t 10a por lon. Already the sohomo haft uttruetud a good doal of attention, and eoveral gentlemen havo statod their inlontion of following tho example Bet by Mr Luya- — [(ineeiislantlcr.)