LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 176, 24 June 1873, Page 2

LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

Taurangd, Friday. Mr 'Williiunson addressed a crowded meeting last night, and a vote of thanks was passed.

, Sunday. Mr Michael Hannon, Nnpicr, waa the successful tenderer for a four-horso coach mail service to Tnupo at a subsidy of £1,500 a jcar. Mr Douglas has resigned hia sent in the Provincial Council. Messrs Edgecombe, Skeef, and Norns are candidates for the vacant seat.

New Plymouth, Sunday. The Proviuoial Council has granted Mr Walduck, purchaser of the iron-sand lease, an extension of time, on condition that he satisfies the Agent-General of his ability to form an English company.

Duucdin, Sunday. Flour, £12 10s ; wheut, 5s 3d to 5j Od. Port Chalnicrs, Sunday. Arrived . Black Watch, from Sydne,\.

Wellington, Friday. The judgment in the appeal case on the Education Rote case « ill be delivered on Monday. rlher Ihe strike among the journeymen shoemakers continues. The s.B. Go-ahead has been placed on the p.iteut-slip. Arrived : Lad} bird from the South. Sailed : Luocrne, for" Newcastle ; Maid of Otago, for Oatnaru.

Sununy The ball to the Governor is to be arranged 011 Monday next. Arrived : Jubilee, from London, 98 days out. Captain Fergusson, brother and Aide-dc-Carap to the Governor, was a passenger. There were 47 steerage passengers, mostly Government immigrants, all well.

Christcluirch, Friday. An important meeting of the New Zealand Shipping Company has been held, for the purpose of increasing tlio capital of tho company to £25,000 by the issue of 15,000 new share 3 at par, increasing tho directory, and joining tho local and London hoard of advice. Tho resolutions were unanimonsly carried. The chairman, in hi* opening address, slated that the first ship, the Punjaub, waj now on her way. and another would follow ; also that the company had eoneluded a contract with Got eminent to bring out immigrants and cargo on favorable terms, lie considered it necessary, though the company was in so promising a stale, to call a meeting of shareholders to confirm tho idea of the directors, that to make ifc a colonial undertaking new shares should is^ne at par. The whole of tho first issue of shares were allotted, md applications had been received for 13,000 new shares already. Tho letters from tho London agent wero most satisfactory, He regretted the absence of the Dunedin delegates. Ho hoped they ■would be present at the next meeting, which would be heH a month hence. The meeting terminated with a i>o[e of thanks to tho chairman, J. L. Coster, Esq , (Bank ot New Zealand), expressive of the entire confidence of the shareholders in the directors.

(From inu" New Zealand Herald.") Napier, Friday, 7 p.m. The Provincial Council have been doing the " funny business," by imposing .1 duty of £1 per head on all bachelors, the duty to be added to the education fund. It is also proposed to have a rateable household ta\, instead of a uniform £1 rat? Eoth proposals were earned, and inserted as clauses in the Education Bill.