LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS. Wellington, Monday.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 156, 8 May 1873, Page 2

LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS. Wellington, Monday.

A company with n capital of £3000 in £250" shares has been formed to purchase a steam-tug. It is intended to send to Melbourne for one immediately. * , i , , . . , ■ Tuesday. The Provincial Council has agreed to the preamble of a proposed loan bill, but baa increased the amount : from £210,000 to £250,000,, in, 0rder to expend the- difference in immigration. ' , , Th,e, journeymen! tailors have struck work for an advance of wages, equal to about 2s a day, a demand which the masters refuse tojeoncede. Arrived,; Wellington, from Newcastle. i , Napier, Monday. Alt a native meeting held at Wairaaramara 3*csterday it was resolved to petition for a new Laud Commission and Native Lands Act. Several speakers objected to the million loan, for .which they said Now Zealand was mortgaged, and that if not paid they thought New Zealand would be- taken, and if the land was not enough then their horses and. cattle would be taken. Lyttelton, Monday. The Beautiful Star yesterday spoke the barque Frowning Beauty, six weeks out, from Newcastle to Duuedin, short of provisions, which she supplied. Dunedin, Monday. Agricultural labourers nre so scarce that Taiori fanners have raised their wages £10 a year. Female servants are scarcer than ever. A vote of confidence in Mr Shepherd was carried at Cromwell. The Dunedin Rifles beat the Ballarat Bangers by 58 points. * A married woman, named Main, died under suspicious circumstances, in the house of a carpenter named Atkinson, at Clyde. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Atkinson. * A Riverton telegram states that tho schooner Nancy was driven ashore yesterday at Newriver fleads. She had entered out for Stewarts Island, in ballast. ♦No lives were- lost. She uninsured". y^Srfche Colonial Secretary telegraphs to Mr Macandrew the dumber of immigrants that the Agent-General has been "Instructed to offer free passages to, and to pay, where he thinks necessary, ' their travelling expenses ttvo v the port , of departure.. ' .'_ ■ '* -t .! -« >v " • d^iult, Mr Joel Darling^ Jdhn&on w&itecljipon the SuperintendenT 1 to-day, in reference to tho Government bonus far the manu facture of bottles, and said ho was prepared to go- into the matter. The Superintendent said tho Government would nob allow, the- bonus authorised to drop. A free passage has been< offered to the workmen required and their families. Mr Seaton was forming a company in England, and he recommended consulting with him. Buttorficld, charged with bigamy, lias been discharged,, the Sydney police not sending the necessary documents. The sailing of the Claud Hamilton has been, postponed until to-morrow. The number of immigrants introduced by tho General Government fronx^arch, 1872, to March, 1873, was 2,047 adults. v „ A pistol was found planted in. Jetty street this morning. It is stated that the Government will meet the Council tomorrow with a orcdit balance of over £10,000. Tuesday. Tho Jane Anderson and two other coasters are lying at the heads, having run on shore owing to a gale at Oamaru and Kakanui. The Mary Ogilvie is ashore at Oamaru. No particulars have been received. The Northern e3corb brought down 8,7550zs of gold. Mr M'Lean gave notice of an amendment to- the Sheep Ordinance, so as to impose a tax on sheep passing from Canterbury, and to provide proper scab inspection. Wanganui, Tuesday. A crowdod and enthusiastic meeting was held last night in favour of separation from Wellington*. A resolution to that effect was passed unanimously, and the- Provincial Council representatives were telegraphed to oppose the loan bill. In the Supremo Court, a case Drury v. Roberts was heard, and a verdict given for plaintiff for £5 and costs. Drury afterwards assaulted Cash, the defendant's solicitor, for which he was fined £7, or an alternative of six weeks' imprisonment. The p.s. Paterson is still aground in the river. Invercargill, Tuesday. The salmon ova have arrived Bafe, and been deposited in the ponds. Some of the boxes contain a fair proportion of live eggs. The sealing schooner Kancy is a total wreck at Newriver. Christchui'ch, Tuesday. £46,000 has been received &r pastoral rents during the lost three days. Applications for nominal passeges are more numerous this momtb. than ever 'previously. The mail yesterday took- applications equal to 100 statute, adults. Nelson, Tuesday., ■ The turning of the sod of the Nelson and Foxhill Railway by his Honor the Superintendent took place at Stoke to-day, who spoke of the ceremony bcing^tlie turning point of the fortunes of the pro 1 vince. ' He ibucu regretted the absenco of Mr Vogol, whose illness might be attributed to the anxiety attaching to the taking of- a leading part in the administration of the co'ony. Ho was exceedingly gratified to find that works m»'n.y' years advocated by' himself were at length coiunionced. He trusted they had met to inaugurate not only thc.NeJspn aipl Jfoxhill. lfne^w.hich Mr Vogol told tlie t doputation had met y,ith more opposition than any other* line), 'but a 1 systcnr 1 of railways that would extend from North and Stmth of Ne^l Zealand. Nearly 3000 people wore present. Grent' cheering^}, jind thrqspspccial cheers were given for Mr VbgeTJ Free luncheon and conveyances were provided' for all 'tliflf pttblic 'societies. A monster procession paraded tho town, in wl\ieh Volunteers and public societies were largely rep'resont'ed 1 . A public- dinner to Mr Vogel will be given as soon ns lie can visit us.

A number of persons ia Leeds having been affected with typhoid, fever, the health officer was 1 puzzled in his attempts to discover tho cause. Drains and cesspools were examined to no purpose. At 1 longth-he turnpd his attention to the food supply of tho parties, when it wal discovered that the inf'tcted people received their supply of milk frbin a fhvm near tihrewood. Thither tbo health officer proceeded, and found that ' some six persons wero suffering from tho fever. Tho milkcans were generally kept i» 4he kitchen, which, closely adjoined tho room where the fever patients wero lying, and one woman attended both to the sick inmatos and the dairy. The theory is that the germs of disease in the »iv settled down in the milk-cans before they were daily sent round with theirs stock. Mb Pox and His Coxstituenjs. — By a telegram from the Anglo-Australian Press Company, wo learn that Mr Eox met his constituents at Rangitikei, on Wednesday evening last.. Ha .reviewed the position of the colony since 1868-69, and ably defended (iho Government from the attacks of the , Opposition. Speaking of the Public Works policy, he said that Mr Stafford had never given any sign of a desiro 1# initiate such a scheme, beyond calling fpr ( a,rj!jturn>of tho number of< persons drowned in the NowZdaland rivers, .which ho (Mr Stafford) said ought to be bridged from Auckland to ' Dunediri. Fox said Mr Vogel was undoubtedly the parent of the scheme, and had worked up its details. A unauimous vote of confidence was passed. ' Mr P. Buckley, who conducted tho case for the Ngatiraulawas at'the Native Lands Court at Foxton, will, it is said, receive 2000 aoKojj of land from them as his fee for so doing. Wo (Post) Heartily wish we were lawyer*, with iiinumei'able ' native land cases to conduct. ,