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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4923, 17 January 1895, Page 2

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(Received, Jan. 17, 11.30 a.m.) Syiixky, January 17. Tho Minister of Public Works, stales that between £300,000 and £400,000 will be spent on roads in the Colony, within the next three months.

The Government is sending an expert irrigationist to Bourkc, to plot out four hundred awes in the vicinity of an artesian bore, in twenty-acre farms. The Government will also establish an experimental farm, to illustrate the best methods of irrigation.

Ai>i;mi)K, January 17. Lord Kintore, who loft yesterday for London, received a most cordial send-off.

(Received January 17,10.1.5 a.m.) Meldouhxe, January 17.

The Argus says that so far as European business is concerned, the West Australian telegraph service is a delusion awl a snare. While we depended only on the Port Darwin line, the liability to interruption was always taken into account, but when the Hastern Extension Company laid the new cable to Roebuck Hay, communication was thought to be absolutely safe.

The Jrijns suggests that tho Postal Conference should take the mattor in hand, and either coercn or cajole the Posr-inaster to bring his department ii]) to date.

(Received January 17,0,50 p.m.) Perth, January 16.

One of the ringleaders in the recentc|annibalistic feast gives gruesome details of the affair.

He states that one native impalod a boy by ramming a pointed stick 'down the lads throat, and then roasted him.

SvD.vnr, January IG. A gentleman named Hall, recontly deceased, after making a few logacios left the bulk of his estate to establish a consumptive home for respectable 'poor, Jlauomi:, January 16 A splendid samplo of hemp 14ft high, grown iu Hast Gippsland, has reached tho Agricultural Department. Itisstatod that hemp will grow to advantage in the district. The man travelling under the alias of Count Volasco has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment on the charge of obtaining money under false pretences.

(Recoivod, January 17, 11.20 a.m.) Memiouh.ve, January 17.

A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce, waited on the Post-master-General, and said tho Chambers was unanimously in favor of tho Pacific cable being laid at an earlv dale. They pointed out that the presont route had failed thirty-six times in eighteen years. Mr Duffy, Postmaster-General saidj it was understood that the cable would cost £1,800,000, and in the present condition of things, Victoria was not in a position to go in for it. He was afraid the cable would not pay at the start, though ultimately it would.