LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.
Xipier, Friday. Sub.«cripLioii« are brini; raised to defray t lie expense of prosecution against the JWae/ra;*//.
Wellington, Friday. A telegram ho* bren received from the Agent -Gener.il stating that t lie follow in<; rebels «ailed with immigrant* during November: — Dnlimntie, for Canterbury ; Ocean Mail for Wellington, uilh UHi -wils ; Invernry. fWr Napier, uith 270; Cnnnnth-. fir l>nnedin, with L'6o. Queen of the .^go, for Auckland, lf)O The vessels will brmir large quantity of mn+crial for the rnilnaj* nnd bridge*. Eighteen ships will sail during the present month with 1800 «onk The Customs' returns for the four last weeks amount to £S)400, being £1700 more fiau was received during the corresponding month, 1872. Wellington prices current. —Stocks of ense brund.> , Geneva,. and case wine are very heavy. There are orer 2,000 ca«es of each in bond. Wholesale prices: butter 8d f eggi r la2il; potatoes, lid ; Turkeys, 5s to 7s; fowls and docks, 5s per I nir Flour, bet brnnds, £12 10a; oats, 4s l'Od to ss; muVe. Is (Jd ; potatoes, £2 15s-; pollard 6stoGs6d; bran, 11 Id per biwhel ; barley, 7s firl ; hams and. bacon, lOd ; I ehecee, 7i'fl, Carpenters nre receiving l'2s per iTny, nnd employment could be ioimd lor double tlie numbor^ the name with painters and papcrhanger*.
ClirisfcßnrrJi, Fritliv. Gt.hu Market*— No snli-«tn rpport. Wlit-at, bs ; oußs, 4s 6d; new cheese, (j»l ; butter, fijd.
Dunedin, Friday. Thirty Ihousnnd eight hundred and ninety shares in tfte Standard Tn«nranee Company have been applied for in Otago. £2<JO is already luWribed towards the Vopol testimonial A rlcputn'-ion of Presbjtermns «aitnd upnn the Provmcinl Govenimcnl, with ft memorial against Sun Jay 1 ruins. The Superintendent promised that the matter should be fairly di<*cu«<vl bv the Executive, nnd would proboWy Juve to W settled by the Council.
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Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 252, 20 December 1873, Page 2
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