VICTORIAN ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4957, 21 February 1895, Page 2

VICTORIAN ITEMS.

Mkuiourni;, February 21,

The Minister of Railways intends to recommend that £430,000 of the million of loan money available for railway construction and improving the rolling stock, be expended in regrading the present lines. The Cabinet strongly condemns the action of the British Postal Authorities in renewing the mail contracts without securing the concessions asked for, and the Acting Postmaster-General has been requested to report, with a view to determining whether it would not pay Victoria to withdraw from tho contract in the interests of her export trade.

i The Supreme Court has refused the application of the Liquidator of ■ the Caledonian Land Bank to have ' the name of Goodwin placed on the " list of contributors. The respondent . opposed the application on tho , ground that he had been induced to j take the shares by means of fraudui lent misrepresentation contained in ; tho prospectus. The Chief Justice ■ said the formation of the Company [ was really a scheme to enable David Munro to sell his own property to I the Company at a very largo price, '. and throw the burden on a numbor ■ of simple minded working men. The case was a test one, and will decide . a large number of others.