NEW ZEALAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2794, 8 March 1882, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

! (Per Press- Association.) 1 *- - The Rotorua Sale- ,:i : Auckland,March 8V The result of the Rotorua sale is asfollows: —Town sections —upset price £1341, annual ■ rental realised £1950;, / 10s. Suburban sections—upset price, £144, realised £391. Rural sections —Upset price £126, realised : '£395. ■ | Totals—£l6ll and £2739 10s. L The Cable Steamer- , , Wellington, March 8. Government has received advice that, the cable steamer Agnes, is now at port Darwin, and will leave for here at the > end of this week. She is expected in about three weeks. - —— / ■ Chamber of Commerce- i &vj Napier, March 8. ' A largo and; influential meeting ,of ; business men took place to-day, and it ... was resolved to form a Chamber of ; . Commerce. Thirty members at once ■ r joined, and elected a committee. Mi ; Menzies was appointed Secretary. Racing. . 1 The Racing Club last night srtHed up 1 for the late .meeting, paying u a cul of £562 to the owners of winning horses. ' f En Route for the Hot Springs-; : f An increasing number of tourr. passing through to the hot Jakes, this being found a much mors convenient route than via Auckland and Taumnga.

Suicide- ■ ••■>■■' Balclutha, March 8. Wm. Whyttlock, settler and blacksmith, Puerua, committed suicide by hanging, early this morning. His body was discovered at 7 o’clock, hanging from a beam in the smithy, quite dead.