(BY ELECTRIC TKLEGRaPA— COPYRIGHT.) SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, Sept. 3. Mr Cheesewnght, surveyor, leaves m October to survey the land concessions applied for by Mr Anthony Ilortlern m connection with his projected railway from Albany to York. The capital required for constructing the railway from (xuilford to Geraldton, m Western Australia, as proposed by Mr John Waddington, has been subscribed by a syndicate, and the company will be registered shortly. Mr Richard P. Williams, railway statist, will shortly proceed to Western Australia to report on the railways there. The P. and 0. Company have received the usual notice of the termina- j tion of their mail contract from the Go- ' vernment. A flying squadron is at present bein^formed. H.M. ship 3 Emerald, Volage, and Active have already been selected. Cholera has made its appearance, at I Gibraltar.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1447, 5 September 1885, Page 2
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