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

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 218, 2 October 1873, Page 2

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

Tauranga, Tuesday. Mr Dargaville met the native electors yesterday, and the European electors last night. Both meeting! were largely attended, and very orderly. Unanimous totes of confidence were passed in each case. Mr Dargaville it the only candidate to whom these votei hare been pasved in Tauranga.

Curistchurch, Monday. The entire horse show, on Saturday, was a success. The exhibit* numbered 50 of all clasifs, including tbo thorough bred, draught, roaditers, and ponies. The art-union in aid of the fund for eending representatives to compete at the Intercolonial Rifle Match u likely to be a great success. The sale of the freehold land on which the Town Hail •tcod tcok place to-day. There was 85 feet frontage to one nf the principal streets. It was sold after a brisk competition for £7,000, and was bought by Messrs Strange and Co., drapora. I ho Press says it is bound to hold the Legislative Council justified respecting their action on the Loan Bills.

Lyttelton, Monday. Among the'Punjaub immigrant! there are no new cases of sickness. There are thirty-two in the hospital, and seiou of the cases are serious.

Dunedin, Monday. Ib it stated that P. Henderson and Co., of Glasgow, will start » new line of vessels, from London to Otago, shoJtly. Six ships, of 1,200 tons each, are building. There have been imported, per ship Babington, a splendid Clydesdale horse and mure. They cost orer £1000. Two hundred pounds is asked for the English cricket team to come here.