Australian Telegrams.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2903, 5 June 1878, Page 2

Australian Telegrams.

(Pee 8 8. Eingaeooma.)

(Peb Press Agency.)

MEZ.BOITENE, May 29,

The cable contract has,, been drawn up and forwarded by telegraph to London. The company have to duplicate their lines within eight months from the date of signing the agreement. Piess messages must be addressed to licensed newspapers, and be in plain English, with no cypher or words of concealed meaning. The Goyerament have found work for upwards of 2C.» of the unemployed in carrying out drainage works, and infcerd further to carry out two of the near lines of railway by day Jabor, but a large number of unemployed are not labourers, but belong to building and mechanical trades.

Public confidence has not b.en completely res'ored. Very little building is proc sded with. The Government are very anxious to commence the erection of the Exbibit'on buildings in Carlton Gardens, orieiwise the vote wi'l lapse, on the 30i'i proximo. The building will ultimately cost about £1( >,00Q, In the country trade is very dull, and no business of importance is doing.

Stdnet, May 29. It is sta ed that the Governor has been offered an important position by the Impel"al Government, bat nothing is officially known. .. The revenue of Queensland shows an increase tlie estimated revenue next year of one million and a-half. A (J'linau'an, committed fo^ the murder of a co.'niiymaii at Godburn, escaped yssierday.