BY TELEGRAPH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 54, 5 March 1914, Page 8

BY TELEGRAPH.

KAIKOUEA AT HOBART. (rms association,) (Reoe)ved Hutch 6, 3 p.m.) UOfcAUT. 6th March, Arrived— Kalkoura (8 a.m.), from Lofittoti.

An announcement lecently made that the North German Lloyd Company \va» to withdraw itestoaaners from Australia appears to bo 'only partially correct. Messrs. Castendyko and Kocke, Wellington agents to the line, have received ad vices to the effect thati to tho end of February the Sydney agents of the company had received no official statement as to tho future from the head office, Bremen, while they are still i«m» ing return ticket*!. On the other hand, the North German Lloyd is augmenting its cargo lines to Australia, and for this* purpose a large number of mudevn freight steamers have been, built already, and one is in course of construction. By April next year the North German Lloyd will control a fleet of 41 oa-rgo steamers, a large number of whit), will be employed in the Australian trade. • The express from Na-pfcr to \Vclling* toil was '• stuck-up" " near the Summit, this morning owing/ to tho defective quality of the coal (Bengal) with, which the furnace was supplied. The u.*]a-y o> cttpicd over an hour aud a-hallf, 'with the result that tho Woodv-ine-Wcilmgiou traian arrived in Wellington over tui houi" l»k\ 1 Mr. ,T*mb, G^vevumam auditor, \v»s fo Ot*W ysstwd*y audlCiiK th* fltWn &«**?„ books. i