Australian Telegrams.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2782, 14 January 1878, Page 2

Australian Telegrams.

Per s.s. Wakatipu.

(Peb Phess Agency)

MEtBODBNE.

The Victorian Government have received a telegram from the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, Adelaide, intimating a preparedness on behalf of the Chairman to arrange for a duplicate line, and that if the other colonies would join in the scheme the tariff might be reduced to 6s or 7s per word. The racehorse Pluto, which ran in the champion race, is dead. The Chief Secretary of South Australia has informed the Victorian Government that owing to an outbreak of Phylloxera the .importation of vines, grapes, i or cuttings is strictly prohibited. | Experiments with the telephone are being made. A successful balloon ascent, the first in the colony, has been made in Ballarat by Professor Jackson and Mr Drew, a hairdresser.

A large deputation of ministers of religion waited on the Minister of Railways with reference to goods traffic carried on Victoria railways on Sunday. 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 carrying passengers, and they were not going to have a puritanical Sunday in Victoria. At the same time he deprecated a Continental Sunday.