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

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 185, 17 July 1873, Page 2

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

Tuurungn, Tuesday. The collector of the education rato is experiencing much chlliculty.

Wellington, Tuesday. It is stated that whilst the lust contni"t made by the Agent-Gpnprnl (or the conveyance of immigrants to New Zosilaud was £17 per head, the New Zealand Company's iirnt contract wm £16 10s, w hereupon Shaw-Saville reduced it to £12 10-i for the iirinuip.il ports, witli u slight increase for .< ill pmts. \ r ogel ia ill. Ho was not able to be present at the opening of the A3«einb!} •

Napier, Tuesday. Mr Jamos Law ton lias been committed for trial for striking a glass in an Orangeman's, face when drinking to a ton^t coupling the namoaof King Wilhuiu and the I'ope, by which tho man's eyesight w.is destroyed. G'lo shaves h.ive been taken uj) in the New Zealand Shipping Company. The Kesident Mngistrnto has reserved his decision in four cases ngmnst lirogdcn's immigrants, iW'iiding enquiry. Promissory notes are uot invalid under the 25th section of the Stamp Act.

Lyttelton, Tuesday. Provisional director! of (he new Gaa Company are appointed. Capital, £7500, in £5 shares. Danedin, Tuesday. It is proposed to connect Waitoki and Invercargill by a railway. If the Ooneral Assembly refuse to grant Iho appropriation tho provinoa will set apart half-a-imllion acres of lurid for the purpose. The following notice of motion is before the Provincial Council : — " That tho mail contract entered into by the Government with Messrs McMeckan, JJlackwood mid Co , is very unsatisfactory. No mail service connecting this province with the Suez route can be satisfactory unless it piovides for tho pro:r.pt dispatch ot tho steamer vit, the Bluff on the arrival of the EnglitU mail stoanior at Melbourne."

Christchurch, Tuesday. Tho journeymen tailor* threaten to strike on Thursday, unless their dcmuuda are complied with. The Orangemen held a grand dinner last night. Ovor two hundred were present.

A Womvn's "Wit Saves hkb Lifk. — The Paria Soir relates tlio following story :— A Madame Bonneau, living in the line Descartes, was sitting in her pariour a few days since, awaiting licr husbands return to dinner, when a m«ui of wild and img^aul appeal anee enteied, and seating himself opposite to her, addressed her in the following teinis : " I am a great doctor. I can eil'ectually cine all headaches. I have heard that you Buffer from that cause, and lam come t'> cuio yon." The lady perceiving that she had to deal \\ it li a m.ulman, pi inlently seemed to fall into lih humour, and asked what w.ls his method ot tieatimnt. "Simple enough, Madame," said he, at the same tune diawing a razor fi«>m his pockets "I cut oil" the head, nnd thru, alter ha\mg well cleaned it, I repluce it upon the shoulders." Upon tins he prepared to suit Ihonction te Ins words. Madame JJount>:iu with great coolness profiled her readiness to submit to the operation, but suggested that she should (etch a towel from the next room to prctcnt Jut drws from being stuiued. Her visitor assented to the reasonablness of the suggestion, and she left the loom, locking tliodcor behind her. Upon her return, with some police-officers, they found that tho unfortunate maniac had cut lm own throat, but not fatally. It was iibccrlumcd (hut he had escaped from a lunatic asylum at Clouitout les L'res, mml liad been raml} 1 sought for dunug a whole month, About 7000 neres of timber arc cleared each week day in tliw country. Of tho annual crop, §75,000,000 worth go(8 to Jucl, and twice as much to fencing. Tho locomotnes 111 ! tins country consume no less than 700,000 cords or 500 act es u year. — Amencun paper.