TELEGRAPHIC. LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 118, 6 February 1873, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC. LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

(From the D yily SorrnEitN Crqss ) Wellington, Monday. The barque Folilen has arrived from Port Chalmers with the balauce of her cargo of tea from China.

Tuesday: The Governor returned to-day. C'hiariui's circus opened last night. Upvard'a of 2,00 Q people attended. Dunertin, Monday. The ship Otago sailed for London, 'and the barque Con. ijuebt fji Guam, to-day. Pneumatic dredging at f'lydf has been succ££sfu}. Oij Saturday last they bottomed and were working <l);y. Fifteen hundred persons attended Pephjes' Jecturp fjjp Theatre last night. T)r Biicbar.xn'? station has been sold to Me§3r^ Roberts and RildHinfor £22,5U0.

Ajonday. Thirty-two Otago Volunteers, in addition to four in Southland, have (jualjfictl as. representatives at the foithcoming Coloni.il prize fiijng. A Chinaman was conimijitqd at l^aseby for spiling spurjous gold. Christchnrcli, Mopday. Dr Moran administered the rights of confiimation to 120 persons yesterday. He afterwards delivered an address strongly condemnatory of the secular system of education. The Otago cricketers have arrived. The match is to be commenced 011 Thursday next. Long odd§ are oftcrecj on Canterbury.

Christ church, Titpsday. The Governor (lid not alight at Christcburch, but went on in the tram to Ly'ttclton, where ho embarked on board the Taranaki Lyttelton will probably send two crews to the Intercolonial Regatta, making in all five boats from Canterbury. Hokitika, Tues(]a.y. The Curandini concerts are drawing crowded housos Napier, 'i'ucsdaj . Tlio Nativo Lands Commission has adjourned until the arrival of an interpreter from Auckland. The Uon Mr Casey, Victorian Minister, arrived overlcnd from Taupo.

(From te Star, Saturday ) Tiuirapga. A man named James Folpy, charged with assaulting his wife, ami attempting to Ull James Bqinte'r, plqadwl giiiltv to the fir-it charge. The cnse was adjourned for evidcnco'. 'Ths prisoner was removed in custody. Tho Independent (o-dnv strongly urges the reduction of fifilories of Resident Magistrates holding «e\cral offices. Also that, tltoy bo subjected to the Civil Service regulations. Stewart, charged wth rape upon n patient in the tiunatii 1 As\lum, has been remanded until Friday. The Crown Prosecutor will prosecute in tho cnse The Gas Company hna declared a diudend of 10 percent. Free schools were opened by tho Education Board yesteiday. They wero completely rushed, more applications for admission having been recened than could be accommodated.

(From the St iR, Tuesday ) ]}nnedin. Tlic Secretary to the Education Bo.ird has requested schoolmasters to obtain books that would girc the least po>mble offence to Roman Catholics. Thirty Leicester ranis, twenty ewes, seventy-one Lincoln ra»n«. and fort"-one owes have beon rqcoiYod by tho Australian md New Zealand Land Company. They arc highly spokon of, and will be distributed amongst tho company's itfjtions in New Zealand. A letter has been received from the captain of H.M s. Dido, which states that the Ota<*o presorved meat ii for superior to that supplied to her Majesty's navy. Thq company will commence operations at once. Chriatohurch. His Excellency tho Governor returned yesterday from a visit to Mount Cook. lie left for Wellington in tho 1,1. Taranaki.

LytteUon. The people lmvc tnken up the question of lending i* crew to the intcr-pro\inuinl rpgn f ta vcrv strongly No one has qualified for the Colonial firing out of fcho Nortbcrn companies.

Nolioi). Tlic unnivcrsnry of tlic province was celebrated yostorday with a Foresters and Old Fellows' fete. Thcro woto 1.50G persons present at the former.