TELEGRAPHIC. (From the Daily Southern Cross.) LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS. Dunedin, Wednesday.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 139, 29 March 1873, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC. (From the Daily Southern Cross.) LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS. Dunedin, Wednesday.

The Mowen Hill Station Ims boon offered by auction. Tbsre wls ft large attendance. £130,000 was bid by Mr McLean but the property v» as bought in at £110,000. The racchorso Tambourine has been purchased by Mr Reay for £'100. A man named Humphreys died jestcrday at Balclutha, under ths influence of chloroform, administered tor the purpose of performing a surgical opei atiou Iho deceased was the son of the late JAlderman Humphreys, of London. He attempted suiside in Dunodin some tune since. Thurida\ . Driver's wool sale was largely attended, uud the bidding spirited. The decline ranged from Id to 2d, the latter ou cboice qualities. Six hundred mid seventy-live bales were cataslgucd, and three hundred and twenty-seven sold. The pirch.-ue of water-works by the Corporation has been broken off until a bill is mtroduood to enable 50 yean' debouturea to be givenThe Tidelia, a screw collier of 1600 tons, left Cardiff for Duuedi^laab month. She will ti ado betw een this port and Newcastle. The Governmest have formed a settlement at Waihola, allowiug the German and Danish immigrants temporary use of unsold land. Sailed : |Harriet Armitage, for Ilong Kong. Mr Dunn and Mr Peebles are passengers by her. Nelson, Thursday. Tho races commenced to-day r rain falling during the greater part. Handicap Hcrdie Race : 40 soys ; distance one and a half mitea. Eight acceptances. McGce's br q Dick Turpin - - 1 VoweU'a b q Misletoe - - -2 Afc-Ivor'a blk q Tommy Doild - - 3 Tins was an excellent race between tlio twa first horses. Time, 3mm. 18i»ec. Tcitr Cum Handicap: 80 soys; distance, one a half miles. Fi\e acceptances. Redwood's b m Malvina - - 1 Walter's b m Slander - - 2 "Walter's eh m Peeress - - -3 This was a capital race. Time, 3uain. 2Jsec. Distkict Pr,vri:: 23 soys; distance, one mile and a quarter. Six acceptances. Warren's Firetail - • -1 Powell's Mislctoo - - 2 Time, 2m in. 20sec. Ladif.s' Puksk : 25 soys ; distance, one mile and a quarter. Pour accoptanecs. lied wood's eh c Terenga - - 1 Mclvor's Tommy Dodd - - 2 Hurdle Handicap : Distance, one and a half miles. McGce's Dick Turpin - - 1 Mclvor's Tommy Dodd - - 2 Won by four lengths. Town Platk : Distance, two miles. Red wood's Kakipo had a walk over. C'ErrEitiON Plate : Distance, three-quartoL-s of a milo. Walter's Slander - - 1 Redwood's Terenga - - - 2 Robinson's Magenta • - - 3 Won easily. Stoke Handicap : Disatncc, milo and a qnnrtor. Walters's Slander - - l Redwood's Malvina - - -2 Warren's Firetail - - - 3 Coksolatiost Handicap : Distance, one milo. Robinson's Magenta, Bst 111b - • 1 Walters's Peeress, Ost 61b • - 2 Trask'i Azalea, 6§t lib - - 3 Thero wai a capital race between the iirst three horses. The Consolation Handicap was given to Peeress. A protest against Magenta for not entering until entries were closed was allowed by the stewards. A deputation proceeds to Wellington to interview tho Government relative to the concessions required for the West Coast railway. Half the shares will be reserved for West Coast inhabitants, who arp cordially invited to assist in such an important piovincial undertaking. Wellington, Thursday. Dr Eeatlierston has established an emigrant's depot at Plymouth. Hemi Tautari, of Kawakawa, and none I'eti and Paoroa Nburoa, of Waimate, have been gazetted Assessors for the llay of Islands under the Outlying Districts Sale of Spirits Act. Greymouth, Thurs,daj. At an adjourned meeting held last night it was resolved to form a Greymouth Coal-mining Company, with a capital of £40,000 m £5 shares, for tho purpose of leasing and working coal seams, lc;ising railway, and purchasing or chartering colliers. A number of shares have already been applied for, and a considerable amount has been promised to bo taken in Melbourne. Whanganui, Thursday. Fell's Whangauui Bridge has been let for a year at £1,720. Tho Whanganui Steam Company will hold a meeting next week to consider tho advisability of voluntarily w mding up the company. Napier, Thursday. The little steam launch arrived here } esterday en route for Auckland.

(From }he &TAH.) "Wellington. It is understood that Mr AVhitakor m fines to accept the leadership of the Ministry in the Ipper Houso. Tlie Government armourer reports i.nourubly on the Malvcru coal ior smelting purposes. The Government intend to prosecute the captain of the Glenlorafor alleged brcuehesof the liumigrntioii Rcguktions during the last \ojage of Unit \e'«cl New Phniouth. 'iJio Ironsand Ordinance ior the Wellington company ».HWad for the second time yesterday in tno Pioviueial Couacil,

A 'Coxn Youth. — An nctivo-looknig boy, aged about twelve years, was brought up the other day* before Provost Baker, at the RuthorglenOJurgh CouiL, clinrgod witli breaking into gardens and stealing fruit tlierefiom. The charge having been substantiated, the nuigi&tratp, ad'drsssing tlie I juvenile olU'iidt'i", said m the gravest wanner • — " If jou had ; a garden, and pilfering boys were to break into it and steal your property, iv what way would you hko to lmvo thrni punished?" "Aweel, sir," replied the 'cute urchin, "I think I would let them tiwa' ior tho Ur6ti oilenee " It is needless to add that the worthy provost was mollified, and that the lttllo fellow wiia clitimisbcd with iin admonition. — G htsgo w Cil izeii . Moiur, Tuii'su'H — A popular ess.i;, ist «ays, "Perhaps tho groat triumph of all niorul Hnlmgs, including sermons, is thnl , at kail, they have produced bonie bweet and amount sleei •"