EXPORT OF GOLD.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8989, 31 December 1894, Page 5

EXPORT OF GOLD.

Included ia the cargo of the Kaikoura, which left Wellington for London on Saturday, are three boxes of gold, shipped ye National Bank, of the value of £5800, and one box of gold forwarded by the Cassel Gold Extracting Compauv valued at £1000. F y '

WESLEYAN MISSION.

The Rev. Thomas Cook, a well-known and honoured English Wesleyan evangelist, who has been recently conducting missions in Australia with marked success, is expected in New Zealand next month. He commences at Auckland, and will visit Wellington, Chiistchurch, Ashburton, and limaru, closing his New Zealand mission in Dunedin in March next.

A BRAVE LAD.

A boating accident last week proved the possession of groat bravery and presence of mind in a young fellow named Stewart, belonging to Coal Creek Flat. While a party of three were sailing on Lake Brnnner the boat upset. The lad dived underneath, cub away all the rigging, righted the frail craft and helped the others in. Finding three too many for the boat, owing to the rough water, Stewart took a lifebelt and swam towards the shore (three-quarters of a mile away) for help. He met the steamer on his way and the boat with its oosupants was towed to land.

LAWN TENNIS.

The lawn tennis tournament was brought to a close at Lancaster Park on Saturday afternoou. The Championship Singles was won by Mr J. R. Hooper, of Auckland; the Championship Doubles by Messrs R. D. Harman and F. Wilding, of Christchurch, who have occupied a similar position on three former occasions ; the Ladies' Championship Singles., by Miss Httchinga, of Napier; and the Ladies'. Championship Doubles by Misses C. Lean and E. Black, of Christohurch. Thj play throughout the tournament has been excellent, and altogether the fixture has been most successful.

A TROUT TROPHY.

The Oamaru Mail says the local Acclimatisation Society are making arrangements to send Home to the editor of the Field a representative sample of our river trout in the shape of a large block of ice in which it is intended to freeze trout of all shapes and sizes. With this object in view, the Society ask the co-operation of all fishermen during the holiday season, aud will be glad to receive any surplus takes, any fish showing features at all out of the common, and, in fact, contributions of all sorts. It is intended to make the trophy as representative as possible, and as the Field has at its disposal the services of the best naturalists in England, such a consignment as it is intended to send should produce an admirable addition to our information ott the. subjecb of local fisheries as well as be a splendid advertisement for the colony. Boxes for freezing the fish in have been prepared, and the Society will,.of course, defray ail costs of carriage. . The co-operation, of fishermen iv neighbouring districts will also be welcomed. V

THE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND.

Sir Robert Stout, in an interview with a representative of. the Otago Daily' Times, gave his opinion as to the recent call on the shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand. He said the shareholders might have said, when the Biil was introduced:—" We decline to accept the colony's guarantee on <tho' issue of stock or shares if we have to submit to such a call." Bub the shareholders did not take up this position and "it is now too kite to raise points about the call." Sir Robert speaks in hopeful terms of the Bank's prospects. "Its Directors, so far as 1 know them, are able men, and I am well acquainted with two of them, slightly with one, and regarding tho fourth, I hear him highly spoken ol."

EXPLORATION.

The special correspondent of-the Waimea Plains Review with Hamer's exploring party at the head of Chalky* Inlet, states thab Gillies, one of the party, climbed to the top of a peak 3000 ft high and got a splendid view of the country. He saw that there were more than the three lakes mentioned by Hamer. A fine waterfall with a clear descent of 500 ft was seen. Perhaps the moat important of his observations was the discovery of a large open tract of. fine tussooky country, portions of which, he says, were perfectly fit for the plough. Tho land in question formed a kind of undulating plain situated 50ft above, bnt, nevertheless, approximating to an arm of the sea. His impression is that this is a most important discovery for the Lands Department. The surrounding hills are described as lightly bushed, and would make excellent grazing country. He describes the surrounding scenery as a panorama of unsurpassed beauty. The weather, unfortunately, set in bad, and he was not able to complete his observations.