The Commissioner for Lands in South Australia has (says the Australian "Star ") lately been paying an official visit to New Zealand to look into the village settlement system in that colony, with a view to giving the scheme a trial on some ot the Crown re serves in South Australia. During his tour Mr Copley took in all the village settle ments from one end of New Zealand to the other, and, on the whole, he has been favour ably impressed with what he saw. He will probably find, however (remarks a London journal), that the natural conditions in the two countries not being exactly similar, it may prove a somewhab difficult matter to attain in South Australia even chat partial success which has been reached in Maori land. The latter is an exceedingly well watered country, and in this respect is quite the opposite of South Australia ; and Mr Copley will in all probability find that in working oub his plans for village settle ment he will have to introduce the costly irrigation feature in every instance.
