NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 9989, 19 March 1898, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND.

(PUSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS),

AUCKLAND, March 18. Amongst the passengers by the Alameda, which arrived to-day from Sydney 8» route to San Fraacisco, is Mr Maxe, who takes the place of Mr Cus&ck Smith as British Consul at Apia. There are thirty miners on boaid the Alameda bound for Klondike.

Tbe Alameda has or board £400,000 specie for Eugland, and an additional £60,000 will be shipped at this port by the Bank of New Zealand.

NAPIER, March 18.

There were 1610 applicants for eight sections in the' Tiratu block, near Dannevirke, including bank managers, clerks, tradesmen, and a very large number of women. The reason of the rush is said to be the belief that the timber on the sections, which i 3 close to a mill, is worth twenty tim?s the price put on the lease. GISBORNE, March ia A poll upon the proposal to borrow £20,000 for the purpose of paying off the old loan of £7000 and providing a water supply for Gisborne was held to-day. The proposition was defeated, the requisite number of votes in its favour not being obtained. WELLINGTON, March 18. Mr R. Mackenzie, of the and Joiners' Society, has been elected president of the Trades and Labour Council.

Search parties are out scouring the bush for the man Morgan, missing from Day's Bay. A month has elapsed since he was last seen. The search so far has been unsuccessful.

Mr W. C. Marter, the hon. secretary of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association, will represent the Association at the championship regatta at Dunedin. Mr Marter has been instructed by the Wellington Rugby Union, of which he is hon. secretary, "to interview the officials of the Otago Union in reference to making the match between the two unions an annual one.

The Public Trustee gives notice of the claim of an unoccupied section of 100 acres in Mangapiko, Auckland. DUNEDIN, March 18.

Numbers of country visitors are already arriving in town for the jubilee celebrations next week.