TELEGRAPHIC. LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS. (From the Daily Southern Cross)

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 198, 16 August 1873, Page 2

TELEGRAPH IC. LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS. (From the Daily Southern Cross)

Tnurunga, Wednesday. Mr Wilhnm Kelly, M II U., w a candidate for the Auckland Prounrinl Council for OpoLili. He is excessively populnr, and Ins return is certain. Hie nati\Ob im? busj in agricultural matters.

Wlmngftimi, Wednesday. Uhe 10 )wv ecu), duties are npjirovt-d of here. The (irnib odor to tuke a liirpc number of shares in the Shipping Com pnny if u vessel is hud on ot Ix>ndon for Whanganui, with Cuptum Linklator cotnmandini'.

Nelson, Wednesday. A\, n public mooting Inst night resolutions were carried in favour of ad valorem duties, and to t!ie effect that tjje Go- % eminent is unworthy of the support of Nelson Uiombars, unless thej obtain authority for constructing the ßruijnerton railw «j this season.

Wellington, Thursday. Mr Mailora authorises tlie contradiction of tho rumour that he is a candidate for the Agent-Generalship. The fyulybud arrived from the wrrok qn Tuesday night brwgipg rigging, anchor, and other Unngi. No cargo was got out. Notwithstanding two fierce galas tho wreck has sustained no damage. The hull has settled down on a level bottom, the figure head being still above water. The wreck has shifted \i feet to a siifcr position. The direr* found a rent in the bottom 4ft bj Gin. The robt of the bottom is sound. If the same appliances as wevo used with tho Turanali are prot-mod the u^stl could be pumped out and raised in two tides.

Christebureh, Thursday. Portions of tlie ill-fnled t-ulter Coquptte, in which five lives \yorp loit, limo boon found on the Ninety-mile l}euch ; also, portions of a wveek of a Urge vessel, supposed to be a brig or sphooner. A man named Jtimea Mom, ajjed 50 yrnr*, a storekeeper on i'aiianm road, lms rommiUrd swo d- h\ tolvinsr sf ru'mmo

Dunedin, Thursday. Hie corn and poultry show n as a great success io'd.n. There was a largo attendance, and a great many oxlubiis. Mr Walter Hell, contractor for the CluHia" railway line, ha* wet witli a icrere nccidcnfr. j n trying to put *]M'»ftk on tlio trucks lie was knocked OTcr,a bridge, and fell some 10 feet. Fivo thousand trout have been hatched at Palmerston nnd it if expected that the ova deposited will produce twenty thousand in three weeks. The success is attributable to Al'r Young's dry process oi impregnating.