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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 66, 1 October 1872, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

(From the New Zkaland Herai/d.) LATEST COROMANDEL NEWS. Saturday, 8 p.m. The Grolrlen Point came on good gold to-day near No. 2 vise. Nothing much known vet. The Working Miners are meeting with a little gold. Grood prospects in Waikomoriko lode to-day ; showing loose gold in broken reef. The Bismark lias cleared up for the fortnight,— 11520z5. amalgam. LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS. Wellington, Saturday, 8 p.m. The ' Nebraska' sailed for the North at 6 p.m. today. Hokitika. Much indignation is experienced at the Council's action on Warden Shaw. The strong language of various honourable members in attacking Lahman is much deprecated. Napier, Friday. Halcombe has returned from the Seventy-mile Bush. The Scandanarians have encamped at tin , nearest settlement, and been placed in possession of their sections. They express great satisfaction with their prospects. Newton stands for the seat in the Provincial Council for the town of Napier, vacated by Colenso. Flour : Canterbury, £16 10s ; Adelaide, £19 ; oats, 3s 3d ; wheat, 4s 6d to 5s ; coals, £3 per ton : potatoes, £12 to £13. New Plymouth. At the nomination yesterday, Atkinson was proposed and seconded by GHedhill and Brown, and Moorhouse by Syme and Upjohn. Atkinson, in his speech, referred to what he had done for the settlers in getting them compensation. He abused the " Taranati Herald," and said he would go down an independent member. He read an extract from Reeves' speech to show that the late Grovernment were convicted of jobbery. He said he would have voted to have the late Grovernment turned out of office. He pledged himself not to join the Stafford Ministry.—Moorhouse distinctly stated that he should vote with the Opposition to turn the present Ministry out of office. He was in favour of the unity of the colony and the seat of Grovernment at Wellington. The show of hands was : —For Moorhouse, 24 ; Atkinson, 15. Three hundred'were present, but only voters held up hands. Eeefton. The third crushing of the Ajax Shields gave 602 ounces from 300 tons. Inglewood is expected to give

O ~ » " The Bismavk ]ias cleared up for the fortnight,— 11520z5. amalgam.

2 ounces to the ton. Anderson scrip is advancing ; the stone looks well. Dunedin. G-ood market in grain. Barley, 5s 9d ; oats in demand at 2s to 2s 3d. It is reported that the disease has broken out amongst the cattle of settlers near Otago Head?, The Government have sent a veterinary surgeon to report. In the Supreme Court, yesterday, His Honor the Judge upheld the demurrer to the action of Coney v, Weldon. in which the plaintiff, late a sergeant in the Armed Constabulary, sought to recover £250 damages for wrongful dismissal of the service. This decision regulates all the other cases arising out of the late police strike. kelson, Friday. The Rev. E. H. G-askin, an English clergyman, is supoosed to have been drowned at Lvttelton. The ' Nebraska ' sails at two o'clock to-day for the Xorth, and the ' Eangitoto ' at six.