LATER SOUTHERN NEWS.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 84, 16 January 1872, Page 3

LATER SOUTHERN NEWS.

The 1 St Kilda ’ arrived on Sunday morning in tiie Alanakau from AVanganni.—A private telegram lias been received from Walii, stating that a settler’s bouse or wliare lias been burned near that place. It is not supposed, however, to be the work of Alaoris.—On Tuesday evening a meeting was held in the Hall at Alarton, for the promotion of temperance, when the lion. Air Eox made a vigorous onslaught on the traffic in strong drink, alternately pitying and blaming those engaged in it, especially the keepers of public houses. The address of the Premier was given, with an earnestness and eloquence which made a most powerful impression on those present.—A correspondent writing from the Patea district says : —“ The-natives on the coast arc busy planting, breaking in bullocks, and fishing. A few cf Titokowaru’s adherents badly clad and perfectly harmless, have lately come to see some of their friends on the coast, about forty miles north of AVaingongoro. They express themselves, in common with most of the natives in those parts, as most anxious to obtain employment on the roads.” The following florid word-painting ancut the weather is from the Wanganui C/troni<:/(’]\: —“ A heavy down-pour for twelve or even twenty-four hours would just now be a great blessing. It is looked for, but all signs are just now failing the weather-wise. The setting sun went down in a cloud —the rising sun waded in a cloud—there was a slight overcast, possibly even a few drops of rain; it lias been so again and again,—but Imperial Apollo once more flogged his steeds fiercely up the meridian, and scattered and swept away the poor attempts, the ridiculous nebulosities, which turned out a delusion.”