(From the Daily Southern Cross). Wellington, Saturday.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 409, 29 December 1874, Page 2

(From the Daily Southern Cross). Wellington, Saturday.

Mr Buchanan, manager of tlio Bank of Australjmh, who lias accepted an appointment in tho Ni'tionai Bink, has acoppt n d an invitation to a jnUMc dinner, which will be given to Mm on the l?tl> Jtitwavy. B/ proclamation in thn New Zsctland G/tzette, Jannarv, Febniarv, and March hare been declared as n clo<c tinie for oysters within crtuin pi escribed limits in the province of Auckland.

Dunrdin, FH'lay. A fire broke out in tie bulunff room of Murray's pmfect ion«vv s'ioj) tost night. The c:m«e whs sjiontnn''on.s cumhustibn, owing; to excoasivo heat. Pamige 4702, whicli is covered by iimumnce.

M elbow vrv, IVcwnbea 10. Tie Om-nfil, after a-lonsf 1 'Hscnssion, pnsserl the Pnvurntof Members Bill, but r^jecteri", by a maforitv <>f uu», tlie Mining op Private Piopoitfy Bill. IV ( Vlmes anrl Offeoces Bill, whiol) lias, pivra risQ to groat fttacuflsion owinst to the ftogginst provisions |t contaiomU l«a« been laid >.M«!eon a point of order. Mr S.unnel Wilson, the welj-lsnown Wimmera yjuMttev, has mndt; a munificent gift of £30,000 for tmikling a hall at the University.

New York, I>ecen>ber 8. President; Grant's message to Congress statex tliafc foreign relations wer,e friendly, but the- difference {rith Spain w*s not settled. The situfttion of Cuba vraH intoiei'Hble, and \rouM be provocßtiv© o( interjiaUoria! tntei*vention. Tiie messnge adYocfttes the icwimption of B|> cio paymontw in t876, and free )panking. H« should continue the present policy in Hhe Sout!i uikJ new legislation was pro seeded with.

London, December 12. The publication of the doouroeots which Count wan accused of having abstracted has paused gr^nfc dissatisfaction in Paria, because in the views «f Ar Hlieim Bismarc'< lengthily ipmonßti^aW, tKorwfh^ France was not to Geiipany, it would *»ther aot *s a

noliticil d^tei-rent than prejudice inotiarchial institufionß elspwh^ro. FrxJ. Young succeeds Dr Eldy na h n. secretary ->f the 0 )lonf-il Instituta. Sir Chxrlcw Oowp-^r, A sjfint-Oonoral of New South Wales, is now convalescent. jVloney rather e>vsv. B ink reserve strong. •J Corn rruirlceh stwly. The Queensland mails vroro delivered yesterday.