TELEGRAPHIC (From the New Zealand Herald.) LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS,

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 175, 21 June 1873, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC (From the New Zealand Herald.) LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS,

Taurnuga, Wednesday, 7 20 p m. Tho triangular auneyof tho country between Tauranga and Wellington is complete. Nntiie matters quiet.

. Napier, Wednesday, 6 p.m. A^ motion is to be tabled m the Council to-night, that anotlitT Laud Alienntiou Commission is not desirable, and ascribing the native agitation to the influence of Mr H. It. Russell and Mr Sheeliay. llau!>e's Bay iepre c entalivt>3 arc asked to bring the matter before the Assembly, wUU the view of cheeking the evil.

Nelson, Wednesday, 7.20 p.m. Tenders for £1500 of the cih loan talon up. £2500, Is Gd, balance at 4.3 to 10s premium. Tho Examiner publishes a letter fro>n Admiral Rous on tha Pecreaa disqualifioafion question. The letter saya the disqualification by tlie G'autejburj Jockey Club was a violation of the law which protects private property. No horse can bo disqualified unless it has been fraudulently vugi oif eutorcd \im}ev hho dcsciqition.

Wellington, Wednesday, 6 p.m. Sbaw, Savillc ami Co *s agents hejo deny t>h»fc M* Morrison acted vjitU their principals at home.

7-15 p,m. . The Directors of the fronsiyid Company met to-day for preliminary measures. It was decided that two. directors and n working manager should proceed to the scene of operations for tht purposo of causing the work to be. immediately commencod. Letters from a reliable source stnto that the new season for immigration for New Zealand has opened successfully. There has been an increase m the number of applications beyond anticipations. TJie present arrangements are £10 promissory notes per adult ior married couples, and proportionate increase for single men. \t is believed that Brogden'a immigration is largely benefiting the G-ovcrnment, owing'to the publicity in bills advertised. Attention is called to tho low price of provisions and suitability of climate. Much attention 13 now directed to New Zealand. Letters from immigrants in the colony are regarded as highly satisfactory. A writer says that it is calculated (it home that each of Brogden'a immigrants must influence half-a-dozen others. Tho flrni selected only about one in every eight applicants.

8 p.m. Letters from tha Agent-General, hy, tho last mail, state that ho had engaged the following ship*, to sail on the datc3 named, ■with emigrants : — Mary Shepherd, for Canterbury, 10th May ; Berar, for Auckland, 20th May ; Allahabad, for Otago, 27th May ; Punjanjb, for Canterbury, 30th May. By these vessels *Dr Featherston hoped to be ablo to send not less limn 1,200 stattito adults; and, as applications for passages to Auckland were very numerous, it was possible that a small number in addition to the aboie might be despatched t hither by the ship City of Auckland beforo the end of May. Tho Agent -General also imited tendora (to be sent in on. tho 24th April) for* vessels to sail as follows : — Tor Wellington, on the sth Juno ; Hawke's Bay, 11th June ; Auckland? 17th June ; Canterbury, 30th Juno. Tho Hulcioue was expected to sail for Wellington on the 18th April, with a full complement of emigrants, numbering about 256 statute adults in air. Eight single men, who had applied for passages, were to bo sent by tho SchiehalHon, whioh vessel was to, leave for Wellington spmo time during May. The journeyman shoemakers have struct for higher wages. The masters meet to-night to consider what stept should be taken.

Christchurcli, Wednesday, 6 p.m. Mr Trent's chicory fhrm buildings, at Tempicton, were burnt down this morning. The damage is estimated at £6,000. Tho property was not insured. All this juar's crop of obicgry is dctroted.

8 p.m. There have been large sale 3 of waste hinds. On Thursday 4.13G ucx-cd Mcro sold, realising £8,532; a.nd on Monday 2,136 acres were sold, realising £1,273. The Council w as jirorogued to-day.

LyMpJton, Wednesday, 0 p.m. Sailed : Elizabeth Curie, for Waikato, with h cargo of 500 sacks wheat, 300 aaokj o.iti.

Tlic klen, of char^iiij so much per word for telegraphic messages, instead of «o much per ten or twenty words, 18, according to an Adelaide contemporary, steadily (growing in favour, md wo beliciu its aJoptiuu would prov« equally beneficial to telegraph companies as to Ihcir customers, and especially on loi^ sea and land linos whero tbo minimum cost of a message m thousands of instances precludes those messages being tent, a id ba? also led to t,he a/stein of whatjs called: '' piK-lun,' ; " Ibafc is putting two or three messages for dj'lerenfc pei'jojis iulo oio message, wliich is received by an agent, nnd afterward forunrded to their intended destination. Their nro regular ng^ncies for carrying on fcliis telegram pockhiq business, and the companies, who have themselves alone to blame, are- beginning to see the folly of a course which loads to such reßuHs We find that tho now word s)Btem of charging ii now m force in the United Slates, East and West Canada, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, and Prince Edward Island, if not al*o in otjhcr places. Two men »ent into «i hatter's shop to. buy one of them a hnt. I'hcy were delighted « ith tho sample, inside tho crown of wliit-h was inserted a looking-glass. — "What is tho glass for ? " said ouo of the num. The othor, impatient at such n display of rural ignorance, oxclaimed : " What for? — Why, foi' tbo man who buj s 1 lie hat to see how it fits." Mrs Malaprop had heard of a man who died from " congugation "of tjb.o hn,m. ' _