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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 12, 19 December 1862, Page 3

The Burke Obelisk— An Unknown Donoe . —A cheque for £50 was yesterday placed in the hands of the editor of this journal, from a gentleman who desires that his name sball not be mentioned, as a conditional contribution towards the balance required for the completion of the Burke obelisk. We hope this generous offer will be responded to, and we shall have great pleasure m handin" the cheque to the committee directly the condition required by the donor is fulfilled. The sum of £150 will, we understand cover all further expenses in the completion ot the obelisk. Ihe committee meet on Friday evening next, when some steps, we presume, will be taken towards proving their title to the handsome donation we hold on their account.— M. A. Mail, Dec. 3rd

The Electeic Telegeaph in Russia.—Accounts from St. Petersburg, state that at tho end of last month there were in Russia 33,135 versts of electric telegraph (24,000 miles). Ihe number of stations was 150. An additional length of 10,335 versts is in course of being established; In July last communication by electric telegraph could be made between London and lumen, m Siberia, 4039 miles cistance. It is expected that the line will be extended to Nikotalvski, on the Pacific, by the end of this year, and that we shall have telegraphic communication with. New xprJr, via Siberia and California, by the end of 1863.

An important question to railway travellers has just been decided.at the Paris Tribunal of Police. The period for which a return-ticket has been granted having expired, can the traveller be called on to pay the whole faro for coming back, or must the portion already paid be allowed him? The court decided that all that the traveller should have to pay was the difference between the sum already given ao.d the whole fare.