LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 113, 25 January 1873, Page 2

LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

j _ "Wellington, Thursday A fema-ie who hns been an inmate of flit> Lunatic Asylum j for the List 13 voars has gi\en birth to a ehihl. ' Stow art. forniorTy one of (he warder:?, has been arrested |on a charge of ri M>°' ' * "* I Regulation:* f"»" 1C conduct of public business have been pwtted. i There nm a meeting today of gentlemen 'interested hi llio proposed company for working the Giey opal mines | The committee reported that they had been unable to obtain I hnr satisfactory rcp'y r v>\\\ MY Curtis, wdo was still negoli- ! a>iug with the General Government on tlic subject. | A telegram from Dr. Feathers) on dated the- lOtli, announcegreater netivity m emigration and shipment of railvvfty material, am] stitcs that every facility is provided for the shipment, of Otago cmigrjuils from the Chtler" "KailS for t\T, Vnilea of line liave bec-n bhipped up to- the preieiit time. In .ivferenee to ft, change of contract ior lh& o<Jnre m vance of immigrants he warns the Government against entrusting it to inxperienced bands. l The Superintendent of >'elson oflers the General Government to accept the liability ofhalf tlio cost of the railwat 1 from the IJrumnor goal mine if the other half ii secured on ! the coal received on the T\'e«tliM«l «ide of the river. ! The tencW o.f' the Anclvliind P>iekot Company for a monllih sen ice between Auckland and tijiat £100 per trip of 2S il,ni hns been accepted, subject to the approval of j the Superintendent ot Auckland. The" contractor* propose Ito la\ on the Star of the. South. Tlic TS>w- Zealand S S , Company's tender for a Fiji service starting from Fort C'huimers and calling at otlier ports to Auckland was £GOO per trip " '.'„"' All appointment? to Oom>jys*iojis or Qfticcr* 'uhd^e salnrv isabivc C2OO a \om\ an; to be made \]y Uio Governor witli tin consent of the l''vecuti\e C'oihuml, and all paid appointments aic to he made under the Civil Service Act, and to be i gazetted. " ,Tlic new Civil Service Regulation*, and also tho>e for conducting criminal prosecution-, are r.Np gazetted. „ The follow intr \m lnland IVovincialjf'oiincil Vets have been .assented to The Education. Aj-t, Warkworth Kond Act, Mnngawai ll arbour Imj)rQvcniei»t^ Kejinirs Thames | Uoad Vet, K.uvhi'i Koad Act. St Stephen's Roa.l let, Oi-u-wharo llo.ul Vet, and the Tndiutriai School and Appropriation Acts ' The Old Colonist- Association dinner, held last nii;ht, v\as l.irgtly, attended by old settlers from all paits of the colony. j " Napier, Thursda'v j /MY AHor, ,«• sot tier, leaves to-morrovy overland for the Thames. 'vviih 2200 sheep. ' J 'ihe 1/ufd JntjUin C(»nniissioncrs have arrived, and Uio Court u i(s on the Itod of I'Vbr.uary. Blake .i<?ll I^enouf hate qualified a^ representatives at, the Colonial .prize firing in Mnrch. "' j ' 'JliiHpdih, Thnrwlay. I The Governor has pardoned five Maori political prisoners i in giK>l. . . '