Capital of the district of Westland. Population, 2,600. Daily Papers.—"The Hokitika Guardian," "Evening Star," "West Coast Times."

The Westland Institute.

R. Hilldrup, Librarian and Secretary.

This is an affiliated branch of the New Zealand Institute, and has its head-quarters in the Town Hall Buildings, Revell Street, Hokitika. It possesses a reading-room, open daily from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., and on Sundays from 2 to 6 p.m.; and a library open for the exchange of books daily. The library contains about 2,000 volumes, a classified catalogue of which was published in 1884. I visited the rooms on a Saturday night, and saw them I suppose to advantage. The Institute is paving the way for a larger, undertaking some day in the quaint little town of Hokitika.