NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2364, 14 October 1880, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

[Pee “Times” Special Wibe.l land Sharking In the North. Auckland, Oct. 14. Tbe negotiations re the Patetere block between the Government and private purchasers are concluded. The terms are that the latter deposit £II,OOO ns security for the Government advance, upon which the pre-emptive proclamation will be withdrawn. The association will pass the land through the Court and secure the title, and the Government will probably select 20,000 acres in lieu of the £II,OOO and return the dpposit. It is also believed that the association is bound to put up blocks of land for sale in reasonable sizes, and to offer 25 per cent of the best land on deferred payment by auction. The survey of 100,000 acres for which Dilworth and Howard are negotiating is proceeding. R. Graham is negociating for 30,000 acres in the Lake Country. McLean and Co. have occupied the extensive Hiruhoru block which was unoccupied for many years through Maori obstruction. South Sea Savages. Joe, the murderer, has lost his appetite and become timid and reserved. Te Ngakau, formerly principal adviser of the Maori King, has been banished to Kawhai. News from Norfolk Island states that Bishop Selwyn was kindly received by the natives of Santa Cruz, four miles from where Commodore Goodenough was murdered. TheEev, Mr Wadregan Was left as missionary. Xiondon Wool and Produce. Wellington, Oct. 14. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency report under date London, Oct. 12:—The wool market is unchanged. Tallow— Fair trade demand ; best mutton is worth 35s 6d ; best beef, 33s per cw t. The wheat market is firm Adelaide is worth 52s ; New Zealand, 47sper496Ibs. The leather market is firm ; best sides worth llfd per lb. Drowning ef a Captain. Invercargill, Oct. 14. News has reached Riverton from the West of the drowning of Captain Owen, of the cutter Ariel, through the capsizing of a boat. Three others would have been lost but for the arrival of another cutter. Rabbit Exterminators. The rabbiters holding a run which was recently leased for rabbit breeding, do not poison them, but state that an epidemic has broken out among the bunnies and hundreds are picked up dead daily.