AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3683, 14 October 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

It is reported that 11.M.5. Danae will return with Governor Gordon direct to Auckland from Fiji. Sailed: Arawata for the South. Fatetero Block. The negotiations about Fatetere, between the Goteminent and the private purchasers are concluded. The terms are as follows: the latter to deposit £11,000 as security for the Government advances upon which the preemptive proclamation, will be withdrawn. The Association will then pass the land through the Court, and secure a title. The Government will probably select twenty thousand acres in lieu of the eleven thousand pounds, and return the deposit. It is also believed the association are bound to put up the blocks of land for sale in reasonable sizes, and offer twenty-five per cent, of the best land on the deferred payment system, and by auction. The] survey for a hundred thousand acres for which Dilworth and Howard are negotiating is proceeding.

A prirate cable reports that Adelaide flour has risen to £10 10s.

Joe, the Fijian murderer, has lost his appetite, and become timid and reserved. ' Te Ngakau, formerly the principal adviser of the Maori king, has been banished to Kawhia.

Mr B. Graham is negotiating for 30,000 acres in the Lake country. McLean and Co. have occupied the extensile Horahora block, which has been unoccupied for many years through Maori obstruction.

News from Norfolk Island is that Bishop Selwyn has been kindly received by the natives of Santa Cruz, four miles from where Commodore Goodenough was murdered.

The Bey. Mr Wadrigal has left as missionary.