Australian.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3130, 15 February 1889, Page 2

Australian.

Melbourne, February 14. Mr Creighton had an interview with Mr Durham, Postmaster-Gen-eral, and has suggested that the San Frahscisoo mail service should be continued for a further period of eight or ten years, the service to be fortnightly instead of four weekly as at present, and Sydney and Melbourne to be alternate places of call. In replying Mr Durham said he would not interfere with the Postal Conference which had left matters j connected with the service in the hands of the Governments of New South Wales and New Zealand, . .Shares in the New Zealand, Fish Importing Company are being rapidly taken up.

Sydney, 18fcli February, The excitement over the election is increasing in consequence of the closeness of the struggle between the two great parties, latest returns tonight show that the Freetraders have carried 05 scats and the Freetraders 61.

Adelaide, 18th February. . The Governments of South and Western Australia have received an offer from an. English syndicate to construct a railway from Roebuck Bay to Angle Pole on the Transatlantic line, a'distance of 1000 miles. The work is to be completed in twelve years, the syndicate to receive 85,000 acres of land for every mile of railway constructed, The Government have withdrawn the balance of the loan for the present. _ £500,000 has been subscribed, sufficient to,carry on until December. The Banks offered to find the remainder at one quarter below par, but the proposal was declined, Melbourne, 13th February. . Three thousand bags of New Zealand oats sold at 8s lOd, ox wharf, or its equivalent, for export.