This report alludes to that portion of the Diinstan district comprising the Wai Keri Keri Valley, Yankee Flat, Alex andra, and Spear Grass Flat. In these places the cereals have suffered from the late cold spring. Potatoes have improved under the rains that have lately fallen. No blight or rust has been observed. Some new land has been taken up in this district for agricultural purposes during the year, but none of it has yet been broken up. A fair quantity of fruit trees have been planted, and a few residents of the district have turned their attention to the- planting of forest trees. A number of well-bred entire horses have been travelling the district, a fact; that shows that some atten tion is being paid to the improvement of stock of this description. The crops of barley, potatoes, grass, and clover are good, while there have also been fair crops of wheat, oats, and hay. The area under wheat is about 20 acres, an increase over last year of fully 10 acres ; barley, 10 acres ; oats, 900 acres, showing an in crease of 200 acres ; potatoes, 40 acres ; rye grass, 20 acres ; clover, 40 acres ; and hay, 200 acres—the three last mentioned crops covering the same area of ground as last year. There are no turnips. In the Wai Keri Keri Valley about 200 acres, formerly in oaten hay, have gone out of cultivation. The average yield per acre will probably be—wheat, 14 bushels ; barley, 15 bushels ; oats, from 18 to 20 bushels ; potatoes, '2 to 2-J- tons per acre.
WIN'TOJST AND FOREST HILL DISTBICTS.
