lands,--land, that is, which might be selected here or there by the immigrant or other intending purchaser,--were again to be sold at 10_s._ an acre, and in blocks of not less than 40 acres each. It is as to land of this nature,--the ordinary land of the country left open for inspection,--that the emigrant should interest himself. The same law of 1864 also defined the term under which pastoral lands should be let by the Crown in the various districts of the colony, being in one district at the rate of 20_s._ per 1,000 acres, and in another 10_s._,--with various other stipulations. But the pastoral squatter’s relations with the Crown are of much less interest to him than are those of the free-selecter or purchaser. This last law of 1864, as did all previous land laws in the colony, require that the purchaser should pay his money down. At first indeed there were free grants under certain stipulations, then 5_s._ an acre was charged, then 12_s._ then 20_s._, then 10_s._,--but in each case the money was to be paid at once. In this way during the eleven years up to 1869 inclusive, 117,854 acres were alienated in the colony, showing an average of something over 10,000 acres a year. For this the Crown,--or we may more safely say the colony,--received £69,440--or an average of about £6,300 per annum. The absolute price realised was about 12_s._ 6_d._ an acre; but the sale had been very slow,--the injury arising from which was to be found, not in the smallness of the money received, which was and is a question of quite second-rate importance, but in the absence of inducement to immigrants, of which it seemed to be evidence. There is the land, undoubtedly in many districts so fertile as to offer to new-comers the means of living easily upon its bounties,--producing wheat, oats, barley, grapes, potatoes, with ordinary fruits and vegetables in abundance; with a climate preferable to Englishmen to any other Australian climate except that of Tasmania; certainly with many drawbacks, the chief of which is the distance from each other of the districts which are so gifted;--but still a country with all these gifts. How shall men be induced to come to it, and partake of its good things?