LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 136, 22 March 1873, Page 2

LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

llok.t iksi, 1\ cdi" esda^. Chamberlain nmlloj mow captured on Kuril's „,„; an ont-stiitionJiiWn miles bi'\ond Jfiirimni Saddle on MonI day morning. Thcj will bo brought in b\ conch.

to-night ' ,„ «*i t , , , Wellington, Wednesday. I llic Southern bland \ olunleer rcin-cscnlatnes arrncd bv Jt'c Kangilot.i hist night. The vessel being ovcrcvowdid ; tiies ga\c jnfirniation to the Customs, and the captain wjia fined Jt."). Tliey left again this afternoon. \ Telegrams from the Agent-General coufirms tW refusal bf the Umt.'d States Congress to grant the subsidy t 0 Webbs lino of stcnmerj. ' " i

„,,,,. A , , , ' ihursdav Drieatherstone telegraphed on the 3Lh March that "the protect from the passengers, -by -the Xe\ada, lvgardnxr the dangers of the last voyage to Auckland, armed "in Aineriea just in time to turn tha Mjale-uguinstllie S'uVsidv Hill in the United States Senate Oh the 6th March, Dr leatlu rr s toui> waned Uio folWinr cablegram from Webbs London agents :~" SubsuU Jiill hf.s failed. Make no further engagements, and withdraw nd- ; acheivtiseinoiits. Inform Featherstoiic'of this cTeterminat on " On (he Btli insinnt Pr Fra'tlirrttbnc telegraphed that the Kew Zcahuul mail left San Francisco on the .->th, and that ns steamers, were. to, be wjtlulraun, the' Go rernmcat waJ advised to stop despatching mails by thut route. Subsequently Webb telegraphed tliat'^is' steamers were sold to a Mr StacLwell, wlu had again sold them to the PoaifiV Bail way Conip:ipy, who intendtd''(o eoiitunie the »er\iee to ll onuj.nl u. In a subsequent telegram, 3>r l^eaflicrstoiie' stales that' he Icliews lie can .Hiange nn tflicienfc serrice irom San FranCisco >c* ZcalaiuUnd Australia, proriilocl the subsidy be iCO.OOO, ... „rr.i V y 1 f« r b, 2t cw Zealand, and that either \ id ona ur.Js aw £oi>Ui . W.tles join in the undertaking. Tne eondil ions are said to be favourable, but Kew Zealand is i»U t.) li.ire a branc'i -.tvicc, us Australia ia to bo selected the terminus. ]Jr Featherstofre uho slates that,' owing to the dreadful lppmg disasten on the U» itij. 111 1 coast this winter emigrants »"o\v a.. grout di»»Hcliwtaion to }eti\c during' the winter '»ont!id. >

„. , Inrcrcargfl, "Wednesday. Mi- Lulclei < ics.gnaiipn of his in (ho General •A^riuMy appears m the tiouffi/aiid Xewi tiii-> morning. He dus he had forgotten flic fact at the time, but finds that ho h di-qimlified Ut Hie acwptancpofacrntrnct fo'- the supply ot Go'»ernme:it slcijjerj for the c'nnje -bury r.iilwuv. . He regKls !>a*m£ to r<sin;i vt" he conMdcrs tfie present aspect of public affan-o not of an assuring. character, and the future doubtful. He considers that tlve pre-ent pol'iticnl si'lualion jtistiiU'tl tlie eour-,0 lie had taken last session.

' " — " Tuuraiiga, Wednesday. Iwo scltlci^ li.nc loft here to rndra* oijr to obtain % 11-inc of-r.md* m\ which pLTAileunj lua bcun foiiiid.

rm ' ' ' -Napier, Wodncsday. llu> Lund lonnmsMon will probably ci)d its bitkiiiej (hfrnVg t he liist week in April. I'lu' Chile sails for London to-night. Her cm-go is of wool valued at £71,4 fci-, - . ■ , '