LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 166, 31 May 1873, Page 2

LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

Napier, Wednesday. The Coomerang sailed for Auckland. The Clematis lias lelt for Matiw, to load sheep for Auokland.

Thursday. The next Pastoral Society's oxi'ibition is fixed for the 15th October, at Havcloek. The Education Bill to bo introduced iv the Provincial Council is being circulated. It imposes a household rate vaning fiom £1 to £5, according to the value of the house : also a tax of £1 on unmarried men not householders in receipt of wages above a certain amount ; and limits the school fees to one shilling per week per child : not more than four children in any case to bo paid for. Religious instruction to be non-controversial, and at previously slated hours, so that children may be withdrawn.

Wellington, Wednesday. Mr Murdoch, of the Bant of New Zealand, has telegraphed to the Colonial Treasurer that the minimum fixed for the four per cent, loan in Australia (£9O 10s) was 10s too high. The tenders received in Sydney were for the total amount of £432,600, of which only £500 was tendered for ahove the minimum, remaining offers ranging from .£B5 to £90 ss. In Melbourne tenders were received for £350,000, of which £4,000 reached the minimum, the buiauce ranging from £80 to £90. But between the date of opening tenders and the departure of the Tararua, £25,000 had been taken up at the minimum.

Thursday. The ten single women who arrived by the Wild Duck, having so readily obtained employment, have each nominated female relatives for assisted passages. Parliament will almost eerla.r.ly meet about the second week in July. No import ant native news wis received by tho Government to-day Arrived : Wellington, from the north. Sailed : Wellington, for south. In the ConrL of Appeal, in tho c.i->c 'Retina v Palmer tho conviction was quashed; R><jin.i -\. Woodman, conviction affirmed ; Regvoa v. Baveliiy • uimcivm aurrmcil. The sid-maker of tho ship .Sfc And'c-w'.-. C'a-tlo has just been picked up drovned in tho I. arbour. Commenting ou an article in tli<> CuiterU'irv Pz-sss regarding the probability of I'io Government p l% oj)usiiit( Iwgp constitutional changes during the coining sc^ion of l'-irlia nicnt, the Lvleprnde it t!m mo'-nin^ siv-, th-iL it. h.n anthor'ty to state that the (Tovcrnment 'tau» no inteniion wbatou'r of proposing to Parli'.iiicnL any lnuismv mvolvirg constitutional changes. It ia po^iible that ckuiiv-lances may make it noce^arj for the Gh>ve> mneut to subnutto Miensure's for vfmedynig certain defects in the constitution of Provincial Governments, but they will probably be more in tho direction of increasing the cflicicutrt of existing institutions than of impaiiriig them.

l>iinc'diii, Wedupsdnv. Tlic nomination for the Suprrintendpney is. (ixed for June 4th, ami the polling on the 18l!i A Mionjj bul uniuccessfnl effort has boon made to induce Major lliclmrdson to •»Und for t!.<> Supurintpndency. It is hi > intention to stand for the Council. It ib believed now I,lml Mr Maunndrew will be unopposed. Mr Mauandrew has ioaucd an addivss (o the doctors saving the province should roturn men wim wore determined to get Hip biiiinsss of the sudsion out in It da\&. The Michael Angelo, 86 days from London, brings 140 passengers. They arrive all well.

Thursday. Mr <T. R. Campbell, of Invercargill, is Llio successful tondo ror for the Tuapoka railway ut £08,000. There were live fenders for the uliole line, and tweho for buetions. The highest tender was £130,000. Cliristohurch, Wednesday. In the Council lust night resolutions weie turned that the province should be represented by an emigration agent in the United Kingdom ; that instructions regarding number and description of immigrants required should be"given by Provincial Oovernmi'iit, subject to the approval of the General Government ; thnt. all expenses of such agency should be paid out of the Immigration Loan ; that a system ol free passages should extend to pcr-ons nominated m the )>roviuce; and tluvt tiie Suj'orinti>n lent be molested to place I 4*2,000 on the estimates for the purple of pi-omolimj n'mni- j j;i-i ( ioii )•> the pruviiiee, in eiwi ir, I'lgcni nti can not bom-ide I \ ,\\\ t'lo < it n. ril 1 1 j.i •!! ru'l ,i> ii i i.i i.v w {,• i ii' abfii.- ' i'( 'illllllOll i ' jlic si l-'cl Diiimuiu '>n tJii' I'rpu <,i!i.»n t'T < '.it tit* i< porte'l lii.it it w. . iiul tipfi'u-iit t< tin i uport.ilioii , of Block to the jTOMiice; but that quarantine gponuds I

should bo set apart, tlnit a certificate ot sjuundneaa should bo required uelbro the catth 1 arc slipped f«.r the province, and that thoy should bo inspected before lauding, and ull deceased innmuls destixued. A roaolmion to place Jb1,700 on the estimated for the College was nuauunouslv passed.

Thursday. ThoProTjnoi.il Oouiiv.il have adopted the report of the committee affirming the inadvisiibility of subsidising any railway with a grant of waste lands, or oxtendiug liability of the province to railways beyond its boundaries. The report on importation of stock was also adopted. Thirty & utlomen have subscribed koVS toward* establishing a livi- public library. Mr Geoige G-ould heads the hat \uih £111(3 All local papers ad\oi*ute \ote by Council touaids the ueciiisury buildings. The extension of southern railway ten miles to Itakaia was opened to-day. A speci.il train convened the Superintendent, Executive, Provincial Council, and Messrs fcilullord, liathgate, .Reynolds, and Aloorhouse over tlie line At tlie dejeuner in n wool-shed on the south bank of the KuLi.ua Mr Stafford, in proposing the toast of tho Provincial Council, said Mr Moorhouso was the real originator of the railway scheme in iSew Zealand, and that practical experience had shown that his calculations made m 1859 were remarkably accurate.

Invercurgill, Thursday. Mr Lumsden, M.P.C., addressed his constituents on the Provincial crisis, lie »uid the question at issue was whether (he province should be go;crni.J. constitutionally or submit to v, pulty de.spotiS.ii. He condeinnod Mr Macandre.v's conduct, and announced himself a candidate for re-election. A \ ote of coniidenco was can jo J. almost unanimously.

Blull, Wednesday. The Queensland hairless horse Caouctchono is on board the d.s. lura/uu, lor exhibition in New Zvahul.