w.irdß of 800 people were settled ou that eitate. It was paying back at tha rate of 6 per coot on the money invested. The , success of Cheviot had been of an undoubted ohsraoter. Not only was there the satisfac tion of the estate paying interest, but there was the more important fact that tbe people were being settled on the land. There wu no better plan than putting people on email holdings who had no other means of getting a living. He read a paragraph stating that the Government were going to lose the tax tbat they had formerly derived from the lend. That was a paltry reason to bring forward against such au oxe/Uent step to assist people in poor oircumstancei. It was also mid that people did not derive as much employment from tho scull holders as the large land monopolists. He hsld that they derived 10 times the amount of yorj:. Supposing even that the 600 people did their work on their forms, would not they require prontions, olotbing and other house hold and farm yard requisites. It would necessarily follow th*t tho avenues of employment would be increased $0 per cent in favor of the small holdings ob against t)je large ones It was therefore incorrect to say that it was only the largo holders who could employ labor. Ho had always been a great advocate of placing people upon the landi, but he did not altogether agree with the views of the Minister of Lands. Ifc wat not desirable to out up blooks of land in the back country and place people upon it who had no means and were unfit for the work. He thought 200 aoreß at long distance from centaes of population was insufficient for a holding. He also thought that a certain portion of the land should have the timber fallen before the people were invited to take it up. It seemed to him excessively hard that people should have to wait two years before theycouldsupport a family upon the result of their labours, and ho believed the hardships were altogether too great. If the cost of felling p«t ot the bmh was added to the rout, the tenants would reoog nUe it as a deoided advantage. 