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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 797, 20 June 1870, Page 3

Some months ago (says the Wellington Independent) we noticed the departure to England of Mr Wright, the Postmaster of Canterbury, for the purpose of asserting the claims of his family to the property of the Deptford Dockyard. The Admiralty having neglected to comply with the conditions on which they held the dockyard, the property has in consequence reverted to the Evelyn-Wright family. We learn that Mr Wright, who has returned by the Alexandrina, has been unsuccessful, in consequence of the refusal of the authorities at the Admiralty to allow an inspection of their title. The Admiralty evidently consider that possession is nine points of the law, and the length of their purse to resist any legal process by which they could be compelled to produce the "equired document, is evidently the tenth. The following extract from a private letter from Dr Featherston has been placed at the dibposal of the Evening Post: —"It is unfortunate if any final arrangement has been made in Sydney either for a steam service to San Francisco, or for a submarine cable between New Zealand and Australia, for the arrangements could have been niude here for both. It is, I think* finally arranged that Brogden & Co. (great railway contractors) will send a staff to survey and report upon the Nelson and Cobden Eailway. If so, Brogden is quite willing to entertain a scheme for establishing a system of Railways throughout the North Island : capital is no object with him. I am going down with him to North Wales to inspect a railway there with only a two-foot guage: this (though at present laughed at by engineers) seems likely to be extensively, adopted j it is perfectly safe with a speed of 36 miles an hour; the cost is diminished £I,OOO a mile for every foot the guage is reduced. I believe Sir Q. Grey will stand, and probably get in, tor Newark."