NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2471, 8 March 1882, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

fPBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, March 8. The Eotorua Land SaleThe result of the Kotorua sale is as follows -‘ —Town sections, upset price £1341, annual rental realised £1950 lOj ; suburban sections, upset price £144, realised £391 ; rural sections, upset price £126, realised £398. Totals, £l6ll and £2739 10s. NAPIER, March 8, Chamber of CommerceA large and influential meeting of business men took place to-day, when it was resolved to form a Chamber of Commerce. Thirty members at once joined, and elected a committee. Mr J, Menzies was appointed secretary. SportingThe Racing Club last night settled up for the late meeting, paying a total of £562 to the owners of winning horses. Eu route to the Lakes. An increasing number of tourists is passing through to the Hot Lakes, it being found a much more convenient route than via Auckland and Taucanga. HOKITIKA, March 8. Eresh Gold Discovery. Gold was struck yesterday by Heran and party on a flat above Woodstock, on the south side of the Hokitika River, on sinking fifty feet. The depth of wash (three to four feet) is estimated to yield five pennyweights to the load. Several shafts are going down, and a good many claims are pegged out. The flat, though immediately in the vicinity of the terrace working close to the river, has been untried. It is of considerable extent, and it is believed a new lead hn been found. There was some excitement in town to-day on the news being received. WELLINGTON, March 8. The s s- Agnes. The Government have received advice that the cable steamer Agnes is at Port Darwin, and will leave for here at the end of this week. She is expected here in about three weeks. BALOLUIHA, March 8, Suicide. Wm. Whyttook, a settler and blacksmith at Puera, committed suicide early this morning. He was discovered at seven o’clock hanging from a beam in his smithy quite dead.