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(From the Daily Southern Ckoss.)
LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS. Wellington, Thursday. At a large meeting of working:men held to-day m favour of the eight-hour system, it was resolved to appoint a committee to canvass for subscriptions to support Brogdcn's ftion now on striko, who object to working more than eight hours. Dunedin, Thursday His Excellency the Governor attended the Caledonian Games yesterday. The weather was splendid and the attentlanne large. The Customs revenue shows an incrcace of £20,629 over the year IS7I. The locomotive engine, ox Palmerston. from England, for the Auckland and Waikat o railway, has been transhipped to the s.s. Wellington, and may be looked for soon. Arrived : Georgina, from Foochow. At Driver's wool sale on Tuesday there was an active demand for the better sorts of greasy, and also for merino and cross-bred wools, both choice and medium. Washed wools wero m fair demand. The highest price realised at the sales was from 2s to 3s 4d. Lyttelton, Thursday. Tho Lyttelton regatta yesterday was a great succoss. Three thousand person from Christchurch were present. Two hundred pounds were taken yesterday at the Lyttelton Church Bazaar. Napier, Thursday. Tho Hoioke's Bay Times has suspended publication. (From the Stab.) - Tho Agent-General writc3 that another ship will be despatched for Otago on October 29, with 300 Government immigrants, 250 being adults. His Excellency the Governor has received despatches from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, desiring him to arrive m Melbourne early m March to assume his new position as Governor of Victoria. His Excellency's stay at Dunedin will therefore be shortened, and he will come to Wellington, and then proceed to- Auckland, accompanied by tho Hon. D. McLean, to attend the native meeting at Maungatautari, with the object of improving the relations subsisting between the two races. His Excellency proceeds to Melbourne at the end of Feb. Messrs Small and Carclay, immigration agents, report the emigration prospects of Scotland . and Wales good, but say they are outbid by American agents, who spread damagiug reports against New Zealand, stating that the colony only requires immigrants to fight cannibals.
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Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 105, 4 January 1873, Page 2
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