LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 107, 9 January 1873, Page 2

LATEST SOUTH ERN NEWS.

Wellington, Monday, 8 pm. The calendar of criminal caws at the Supreme Court ia light, there being only seven cases net down for hearing. The Nelson and Foxhill ItailwJjwill shortly be submitted to mibhc tender without beiue first offered to Broaden.

r - " mil 1 UCbdaj At the Supremo Court, jenterday, WiUiam Thomas, for an indecent a<i3ault on a little girl, v,om sentenced to a year's imprisonment and to receivo twenty-five lashoß. The formation of the New Zealand litamc Steel and Iron Company is progressing favorably, shares being well taken up and influential name* placed on the Directory. Tho Dakota ai rived here at tea o'clock Sho will sail south to-morrow moraine.

Dunedin, Monday. On Saturday night last Detective Farrell, whilst going home, was fired at neiir First Church. The first shot grazed his face, but the fourth entered his side. Ho turned and recognised his assailant ai Rjan, ex-police sergeant, and called him by name not to kill a man unprepared to defend himself. Short 1} after wards Ryan waa arrested. He was on ins way to the Volicc-itation to give himself up. It is said that he intend* topi ote an alibi. Tho affair Las caused great excitement. Tho Port Chalmers Railway runs Sunday trains. Over 1,500 people have u«ed the line sine* its opening. One of Brogden'b navvies, n&rae unknown, fell over a precipice with a horse, while he was returning from the workd on Saturday last, and wa* killed. Tho Supreme Court criminal calendar contains 85 cases A number of private gentlemen aro arranging to eend a crew to compete at tho Interprovincinl Regatta at Wellington, as the Rowing Club declines to tako any furthor responsibility m the matter, owing to the apathy shown. The Provincial Govcrpinent h%a opened 8,000 acr • }f land between Tukituki and Makanti river for sale, on deferred payments. The weather is boisterous »ad raining, which is much reauired.

Tncfdoy. Tho northern esrort brought in 16,5&90z3 of gold, beins ths largest amount brought by any one escort for sever-il year*. A Ci f z<W Ba'l to tho Governor waa guen lost n ght. It wa? largely attended. Die Otago Daily Times states on authority that tho lion Mr Hall will resign his seat m tho Cabinet before tho next •ession of the Assonibly, and that he will proceed to England on private business, and that tho lion Mr Wftterhouse will endeavour to get a scat in the Lowsr House. Christchtirch, Monday. The Supremo Court calendar contains two indictments. The opera season closed on Saturdaj. The company proceeds to Dunedm.

From the dTAE. Tauranga. Tlio Southern Crest arrived at 11 o'clock last night. She will sail for Oootiki to-nicht.

Wellington. The ma«ter butcher* havo acceded to the domand of their journeymen, so that the threatened strike will not take place. Mr Brogden's navvies, ci Jessie Redman, hate procured work in and about town at colonial ratea. A son of the Hon D McLean goet in the Luna to Taranaki next w eek to effcot the purchase of land offered by natives to the Government. A public meeting of early colonists will be held to-night to recci\e the report of tho committee.

Blenheim. A terrific utovm occurred on Saturday cvoning, tht> hie of ■wlnc'i «ns lifvpr *crn hero before. A 1-ir'itn 'H boll Btruck Mr Fell'i onthonßo, but di 1 mlciu«p nnv wj. ru Jamago. Sevoril telegraph poleu were

Eo'iPhkr. - - "■ . " nilton arrived at 10 o'clock Iftst night P'cionAT - - i ; a named Overond, who was at'aojtetl ri ", \\ M n '-ji. ,a cr, writes % letter to the IndeperJott, '•-v. m t'nt n> if the cicursionista from 'Wellington to p ivip „ n. himself as a member of the Press, and 'vm.'e 1 'iqn «i • an ' meats without payment. Tmc Cru-a'le-, fnm London, 81 dayu out, has arrived at W^lincton. Sto brines 224 pas-nenger». Two deaths and two births occurred Both the dec«iacd were children. All the pa«3rn2ers are in good health Mr Justice Richmond, m addressing the G-rand Jurj at Nelson, condemned Mr Curtis'a larcenj bill.

London, December 28 Mr Disraeli's curly retirement from public life is rumored ActiTe diplomatic corrc^pondenc* between England and Russia relatiTC to Aflglianistan is proceeding. The Thames Valley i« flooded, md a large amount of properry, including an immenso amount of irheat, baa been destroyed. News of a pacific character has been receded from Berlin to the effect that Oermnnv will not interfere in the afiam. of Franco under any settled t«irm of OJorernmont. One of tho chief Britioh rlaims for compensation against America was that of Mr Valentine O'Bricu O'Connor for £45,194 13s 9d, and £15,000 eleven year* 1 interest on this sum, this boing the amount of losi sustained by him by the destruction during tho w»r of 716 bhda of tobacco, his property. Copper it firm at £91 Australian wheat commands high rates.

Life-pboioxoi-vg Power.—" Whom tho godi loto dio young" receives no confirmation from tho two mon who are probably most admired, reverenced, or tailed of at present Thiors and Livmgstono, the one beyond, the other a little short of t]-et ] -e lorms of \pa-ra allowed to man by the Palmist, aye striking example* of what we have more than once ma.nlamed—the hfoprulongmg power of keen mental oceupition and successful enterprise. Tho witty and accomplished author of the "Secret of Long Lifo" aeea^oro chance- for longevity in the " Still-leben " of the countrj, with its gent'o Horatian enjoyments, moral and intellectual We doubt this view. Ilonnils aro not long-hve.l, and if country gentlomeasurvivo the throo«c<va years and ten, it is by a mode of life precisely the reverse of the lounging dilletante Town hfe stimulates the brain and nanous sy-tem— (he reservoir of vitality- Car more than rural, aa h .seen in the much rarer occurrence of idiocy or iinbeoility of the gamin of the bum street than th« o'uU of the torpid village And m with tho child, so with the » nn. Prmidenco bociiis wisely to have ordained I hit lifo »hcu d bj i^longtd u proportion to tho value of tho p->s cjjor as amaii»uda citiicw —jLaitel.