AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 12, 14 February 1878, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[Pek Wakatipu.]

The Victorian Government hare received .a telegram from the Eastern Extension'Telegraj^t .Company at Adelaide intimating their preuar.eauegs to arrange for a duplicate line, and that if £b\e .other colonies would join in the scheme the tarif might be reduced to 6s or 7s per word.

The racehorse Pluto, which y^a in the champion race, is dead.

Ik? Chief Secretary of South Australia \ has iflf orated f he Victorian Government that owing to the o.^.b#jajt of the Phylloxera the importation of vines/ gf#ma, or cuttings is strictly prohibited.

Experiments with the Telephone «cc &e/ng

A sue^gflful balloon ascent, the first in the colony, wag made in Ballarat by Prof esaor Jackson, and Orew^ hairdresser. <

A large deputation of ministers of religion and members of parliament waited on the Minister of Railways, in reference to the goods traffic carried on on the Victorian railways on Sundays. Mr Woods pointed out that the work was one of necessity owing to the limited rolling stock. He saw no difference between carrying goods and passengers. They were not going to have a puritanical Sunday in Victoria, but at the same time he deprecated a Continental Sunday.