LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS, Napier, Monday.

Waikato Times, 20 January 1874, Page 2

LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS, Napier, Monday.

A largo meeting ef carpenters uns held on Saturday evening. It was resolved ta dcmnnd 12t per cUv one month from ditc Thu meeting fruprderly Mnoughimi. The Great South Itoad is newly finished ; it is expected . that within two mouths a ouhhiuiot mil be ab!o to run j tlirough to moet the Wellington and W.ir.ganui coaches at Foxtou. A number of Uriweras arrived from the heart oi the f Uriwera country oft Sunday. Itto obiect ot their wait is to r intei view: Mr Locke regarding sher boundaries of the Waiknj reinoana land. ' Wellington, Mouda\. ' The Halesbufyhas armed from London with 200 nnrtngrtintb. She was detamed oiiHt'i*' the Heads by X. W. wind. The Patterson 6teamer towed her iv tu-m^ht. Hunia, the came of the uativo disturbance at Horowhenua will be brought before a magistrate to-morrow. Qrerniouth, Mondtr. One hundred and thirty-two Chine«o landed here from the Alhambra. Tii^y were bndly trt'.ited b\ r a rrow«l assembled on the wharf, although protucU'd as much as potI aiblo by the police. The respL-eiaWe portion of tho community* u muoh diigusted at tlic affair. New Ply>nouth, Monday. The firing for representatives for the Colonial Prize, firing scored as follows .—Elder, 90 ; R. Bayficld, 89 ; L. J. Collins. 88 ; T. Humphreys, 86. Major Atkinson has laid a criminal information against Wlntcomb for libol, in consequence of an electioneering squib. ITe refused to apologKe. lnvereargiU, Monday. The Governor arrijed from Queen«town on Saturday evetiinp; he was w^U 'received by a large crowd, and an addreks of welcome was presented to him by the Corporation. The luncheon to-day was « ell attended , and an equally good muster is expected at the ball to-morrow. Dunedin, Monday. Compositors who wrr<> receiving la per thousand are now gotting Is 2d.