(From our Own Correspondents.) Auckland, Wednesday evening.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 531, 14 October 1875, Page 2

(From our Own Correspondents.) Auckland, Wednesday evening.

At the Bale of Captain Barton's property, Hobson-fltreefc, very high prices were realised. Land at the corner of Hobson and Cook streets fetched sixteen pounds a foot, Hobson-street frontages, X 6 17s 6d ani £8 2rf 6d a foot, Nelsonstreet, £2 12s and £3 3s. The total proceeds of the aalo was .£3,966. The Emu has arrived from Fiji, but the news is meagre. Leyuka will probably retrain the capital. The Royal Engineers had arrived. A memorial will be erected to Commodore Goodenough. The schooner Dauntless was floated off the reef and brought to t/evuka. Sims Brown has launched a small steamer for Adair and Gisborne. A female immigrant, just lauded from the British Empire, was sent to the asylum to-day. She had been insane i'n 'England, broke out aboard and continued mad throughout the voyage. Her main 'delusion was a belief in being engaged to the Captain, and she made ; frantic efforts to embrace him. A man went to a secluded spot beneath the wharf near the waterman*' steps, fell asleep, and slipped through into the slush and tide. He was not seriously injured. The case of Farrell, late of Ngaruavrahia, charged with the paternity of a child, was adjourned until .November l«t. Grahamstown. Intelligence has been received of the natives having cut the trig station at Waipt When the land was jwirchased by Mr Mackay, Junr, he arranged for a reserve, but did not define it The natives now claim that the trig station is on the reserve, and have demolished it. A prospecting party has been out some weeks on the spur between the Omahai and Puriri Creeks. They brought in good golden stone and tested 28 lbs for a yield of 17 dwts of melted gold. . They have gone out for more. . ' "■ ' " Opotiki. The little schooner Echo, Captain Black from the Thames, is wrecked. No lives weip lost. ' The Echo was the property of J S Macfarla ( ue, and Captain Black, and was insured for £400 in the New Zealand Company. The value was estimated at £600.