TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 13, 13 December 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

(UNITED PftESS ASSOCIATION.). Wellington, l}e£ ? iT. Y\ Jdliiel Gazette! riotio^re.lihe; increased charge of postage imposed on Brindisi letters appears to-night. i ■ ■ ' i.jiijSJuwE-Savill, i and Albion,' Company's chartered steamer lonic' left IPlymo'uth f on s Jhe;^li ; .iiiißt..>wJ!h 389) passengers. She makes Wellington her fi|st port of \~9^ki::^n ;->;; ..; urn/ j "' At th 6 Besident Magistrate's, Court to-day, JWaring Taylor was! further charged with the conversion to his own use of two sums of jj8760. 10s; each W' longihgiio the'May'e'staiie'j and i^as committed for trial. . """ ] 'IPobt 'Chalmers, Bee; ,11, . Arrived— Kaakoura, from Plymouth, via Capetown and Hobart. Shy brings 300 tons of cargo, and. 65 saloota, 74 sec;ond|arid^Oi'steerage passengers for all ports. The passage from Plymouth oc- •• cupied 43 days.,,, * : .-,■,•. .-.. f: ! ■ : ..:.., ,> -OffBISTCHpBCH, I>ed 11. The promoters of the South Island East and West Coast Bailway have ap- ■ pointed an ififlue'ritwi whicli is endeavouring to arrange the* construction of the'line by coming to terms with the Government and tHen disposing of the contract to London capitalists. 'The. committee, have decided m favour of the .Arl^ur's Pass route m preference to Cannibal Gorge, and this. will be specified m the contract with the Governiiient. Government V have withdrawn from the Bale lands 'along both routes, pending the signing conditions of the contract. ; The committee • will canvass for,- subscriptions to pay the < expenses of putting the contract on the London mar- , ket.,\ ."',".. ' ■ ;" " ' '" ■^- - ' ' " vV . ■ ' ' — : -■■ t