RAILWAY COMMUNICATION. Between Great Britain and the East Indies by why of Trieste.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 313, 29 July 1848, Page 4

RAILWAY COMMUNICATION. Between Great Britain and the East Indies by why of Trieste.

The regulations proposed at the conference on the 3rd December last, of the deputies of several of the German railways and of the Austrian Lloyd's, respecting a regular communication between Great Britain and the East by the German railways, have now been confirmed. The two main points are — the expediting of travellers and that of couriers of the Austrian Lloyd's. According to the first, travellers from London to any transmarine place via Tiieste, or vice versa, may pay the total cost of their journey a"d luggage for the whole route. On making the ■-payment the traveller is furnished with a travelling book, valid for themselves alone, which contains as many individual coupons as there are railway administrations along the route, and this travelling book is available for the term of two months. The second point, the expediting of the couriers of the Austrian Lloyd's between Trieste ard London, and vice versa, is effected by means of extra trains twice a month, and ahull shall be ready to start, at latest, two houis alter the arrival of the telegraph, or written despatch, announcing the approach of the courier, and shall be kept waiting in readiness, if necessary, 48 hours. These extra tiains are to consist of two cairiages and one luggage waggon, and. besides the courier, aie to convey as many passengers as the space or the carriages, and the stipulated rapidity, will admit of, namely one German mile in ten minutes.