TELEGRAPHIC. (From the Daily SOUTHERN CROSS.)

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 275, 14 February 1874, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC. (From the Daily SOUTHERN CROSS.)

Napier, Th trsdftr. Volunteer Provo (late of Auckland) wj« the tim dufrict pvuo at the rifle «liooting C'oi-portl JJoiinjtb is the representttm for PoTerty Bay

Air bheehan, who j* «*„>* uere, pr,>pp«ea arranging all h native business loiouj'j. M^s^i Le«»nii OjrnfjrJ, solici*ors Alexandra, Thurslsy. A great numbsr of i.Vivm from t»to Wtuknt* awl else* where are roturaia^ In TjlcaagituikKu, to prepare fur the meeting. A mmbcr of nufcirji ara also down »ith wheat for iale, and .iro recoivintf 6a per buditol. Welhngtonj Thursday. This afternoon the police arrp«t<sd Qoorge Mitiricd Drumnond, tne absconding in.n^Ti>r of the trovinoial and Suburban bank, Richmond, Melbourne. He had £4/0 in gjJd on his peri> >r> The total imports of tbo <«lony for the quarter ended December 31 are €l,7BtßOi, and fo- the corresponding period of 1672, tho amount was £1,498,19* The value ot the imports for the colony diumsj 1872 »a^ £5,142,951; that for lust jear, £6,481,911. The value of export* trora the colony in 1872 was £5.19u.66S ; that for last year, £3,610,371. The Luna «ails in a few tlavs to proi^cute the examination of the co'tst wne and detei-mine tho aited of nreral new lighthousei. She goes first to Ikiroa to take in a quantity of sleepers for the Timaru am! Tomuka railway. Port Chalmers, Thursday. Sullivan, the murderer, of We*t Coast notoriety, is *aid to be a pwsenger by the Mikado for S*n Franoi*oo. The Town Council has appointed a comraittte to arrange for the erection of public butt i. Bluff, Thursday. News has been brought fr-.m Smart's Island that th« barque William Ackers, from Duuedin, bound for NWoast!i», t'ireo weeks out, put in on the Oth, sho»-c ot pi-otisnon*. Sho sailed on the 6th.