LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1972, 26 February 1885, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

fl'.V TH.I (.RAIMI. — OWN COItRI- sl>o\ !>!• NT 1 Small-Pox on the Ringarooma at Sydney. Arck[,\M>, Wednedsiy Xight Thk Colonial ivcictaiy has iccuxcd a cahlegiam ttom the secietaiy ot the Uoaid of Jle.ikli, Sydney, stating that the steamer Kingatooin.i, fiom Auckland to Sidney, was qtutiantiucd ytsteiday theie, in consLfiiiencc at theie bunt; a case of small pox alwaid. 'J'lio patient is astewaid, and, as on the last \o> aye of the steamer to Sydney she was two days in that poit, it is beliexed that theie ho coutt acted the disease. Tin* passcngois had di»cinbaikcd b< foi e the dibto\eiy wa^ made but tittuen ueie le captured. The otheis cannot be found. The Frozen Meat Trade. The steamer Tarawera, which left here for Sydney, to da}', took 17t>"» cases of preset ved meat, shipped by the New Zealand Frozen Meat Company, consigned to the Loan and Mercantile Company, Sydney. The shipment amounts to 83,(i801ba of meat, \ allied at £2,143, and is made up of about equal quantities of boiled beef, roast bnef, .mil compressed corned beef, the whole piepared and tinned within the last tu'o dajs. It goes to supply an order from the New South Wales Government:, to bended by the Australian tioopi about to cmbaiU for tliu Soudan. Departure of Sir J. Vogel Sir Juli u» Vogd kft for the South toda_\. The Doric's Immigrants. All the single women by the Doric have been engage 1 w ithout going to the depot. The Tourist Traffic. Twenty one tounsts, booked by the oveiland loute with Mr llayr, lelt for Koto hi a and the Hot Lakes this iPoming Mr llayr is> sending thiouirh a weekly average of between 70 mid SO. New Zealand University. The New Zealand Unix «i --it}' opened its sessions to-day. Tl.e Vice Chancellor sa.d he had beun anthoiised by Sir Julius Vogel to infoi in tlie Senate that the (!ovetument had under cousideiation a scheme for granting four annual scholarships, each to be held fora peiiod of eight ytais, for the benefit ofstudeiifafollouing the scientific side of the university course. The scholarships would be open, so far as the scheme has yet been mianged, to competition ly pupils fiom any school in the colony who weie able to pass a '•tindard similar to the otli btaiulaul of the pi unary &JiooK