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Colonist, Volume IX, Issue 855, 9 January 1866, Page 3

Tmsatery ofthe discovery of mutilated bodies at Ofea, in Anckland Province, turns out to be a Maori report void of foundation. The temperance movement is gaining ground among the troops at Patea River, on the West Coast of the North Island. Mr. Brooib has been appointed Provincial Secretary of the Province of Otago, and hue succeeded in obtaining the requisite number of colleagues to enable him to carry on the business of the Council under the Superintendent of the Province. Butts' Metropolitan Hotel.—As will be seen by an advertisement in another column, this. favorite Hotel in Sydney, which already possessed numerous advantages so as to render it one of the most comfortable places of residence, has recently undergone still -further alterations and improvements. An elegant and well-ventilated coffee-room has taken the place of the former dining saloon; a commercial saloon has been added where merchant and squatter can transact their business free from interruption; and a spacious saloon, : capable of dining one hundred per* sons, forms a further improvement; these, combined with the bath and billiard rooms, the cool retreat in a well-shaded garden at the roar, of the Hotel, eon* pled with its central position, serve to render Butte* Metropolitan aa a most desirable hoetelry for. visitor* ■«- to Bydney,«—4fssrWnwea<..