LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 160, 17 May 1873, Page 2

LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

Napier, Thursdaj . Messrs Watt Brothers have arranged to li.ivc a new steamer built at homo for the Auckland trade. She will bo similar to tho Star of the South, but larger; she may be expected to arrne m charge of G\»ptain iljlmcs m Novomber. Tlie Superintendent has received advices that the apparatus for the Xapier light to be erected on the B luff is completed, and will bo forwarded immediately. Plans for a new wharf which will largol> improve the shipping accommodation hero are being prepared. Mr Harding, a Waipitkurau settler, owing to a land dispute with the Provincial Goa eminent, tore up a bridge on the southern road A traveller last night fell into the creek at the place where the bridge had been, and sustained serious injury. Criminal proceedings are going to bo taken against Harding. Wellington, Wednesday. The tenders for the Four Per Cent Debentures were opened to-day. The sealed minimum price was £90 10s. Tenders were opened for £10,900 at prices ranging from £80 to £85. The Mayor of Christchurch tendered for £300 at par, which was the only oiler accepted. Mr Vogel stated that tho Comptroller would invest £130,000 of Trust Fund in the loan at a price to be fixed between the Comptroller and the Colonial Treasury. Hunger-ford's tender for the Brunncr Railway is £22,835. Thursday. The Provincial Council has voted £2,000 as rewards for the discover \ ol a goldlicld and a coalfield in tho province. Parliament has been further prorogued to June 5. Arrived : W.ingauui, from Napier ; Taranaki, from Nelson. Dunedin, Wednesday. Nothing definite is known as to the formation of* the Government. At a meeting of carpenters held hist night it was decided to raise the wage* to 12s a day. Thursday. In the Provincial Council to-cLiy, a resolution wns tabled to the following effect : — To pledge the Council's accept anev of any overt act, by resolution or otherw lse, in the Assembly, to despoil the province of its land fund, as the signal for instant separation and a declaration of independence of the colony. Mr Bathgate moted a series of resolutions affirming [the proceedings of the Council on the subject of the New Zealand University, and tli.it it is detriment il to the cause of education in the colony, and tending to lower the standard of education by elevating the- inferior schools to a rank which cannot be maintained, besides being a manifest evasion of the law ; and that the colonial vote of £3,000 should bo applied to the maintenance of a University at Auckland ; and that the Assembly be rcquosted to strengthen Otago m its application for a RO3 al Charter. To-day Mr Reid nubmitted the names of his Executive :—: — Provincial Secretary and Treasurer, Mr Reid ; Solicitor, Mr Stout; Roads and Works, Mr Green ; Goldfields Secretary, Mr J. C. Brown. Mr Lumsden w ithout ofllcc. At tho evening sitting Mr Reid intimated that the Superintendent had refused to accept the names of the new Government. The Superintendent* messages are simply a reiteration of the request for a dissolution. Christchurch, Wednesday. After a long debato on the Education Bill, a motion that the Government aid b.B not withdrawn from denominational schools so long as they satisfy the requirements of the Education Board as to the description, attendance, and secular instiuction, was negatived by 23 to 3. An amendment to postpone the withdrawal of the grant for three years was lost by 22 to 11. The bill is likely to pass unaltered, although efforts will be made to secure denominational schools after one year's I grace. The Episcopalians are endeavouring to get up a public meeting to protest against this measure, and one parish meeting lias unanimously done so. Tho Council passed a resolution to the effect that a graving dock or slip capable of accommodating vessels drawing 20ft be included m the scheme for perfecting the Lyttelton harbour works. The salmon ova are not turning out so veil as expected. It r> doubtful if am will be hatched. A man named Wiltshire to-night commences to walk 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours. lillllMl.U. The Provincial Government have rcsohed to ask tho Superintendent to place £150,000 on the estimates for Lyttelton harbour woiks £100,000 of this to be raided under Lyttelton Harbour Works Loan Act, and tho balance to pome from Provincial re\enue. Nelson, Wednesday. The voting for the Subuibs election resulted to-day as follows :—: —

Invereargdl, Thursday. Tlic Ctiraloi* of the S.ilinon Ponds reports tbut several of the o\.i, per Oburon me hatched ou'., und a good many more show signs of vitality. Whanganui, Thursday. The Wairoa Settlors' Association Inn en lorsod the Separ.itiuu movement, and in 'etuis*-! are about to be held in the K.ingitikei nnd P.ilea dislnets, at whieli delegates from Whangauui are invited to attend.

Ay I\or\tnrs Kkctsk — Wlnle tlie satirist only sneers, as at u stock hut I for hi* ridicule, itt the managing mother In ing to get her daughters married off her hands bv chuiincrirs iind meannesses, which e\ery novelist, knows too well 1 io\v to draw — would to linden he, or rather, alas ! she, would find t.oine more chivalrous employment for his or her pcn — for were they not, too, born of a woman ? — I only say to myself— having Intel ulnoys a secret fondues* for poor Rpbereii, though T love Itaau more than Jacob -'Let the poor thins alone With pain sho brought these girls into the world. With pain she educated them according to her light. With pain she is trying to obtain for them the highest earthly bles-iinsj of which she can conceive, uameh , to be well married ; and if, in doing that list, she manoeuvres a little, commits a few babcnesocs, e\ en tell a l\>w*uutruths, what does all that come to, save thi- — that in the confused intensity of her motherly sulf-snerilfee, she will sacrifice for her daughters even her own conscience and her o« u credit. We may sneer, j if we will, at such a poor hard-driven sold when we meet her m society; our duty, huth us Christians und gentlemen mid 1 idie^, seemt. to me to be— to do for her something different indeed. — Canon Kingsley, /« the Cornhill Magazine. Km'iilk Pkoiuijle. — A foreign paper, reporting a duel whic'i li.ul just taken place, stated llv.it " the seconds on nm\in<j on fhe ground, placed the two adversaries at an equal (' J ) di-luiii'e from w^li othei'."

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