WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10314, 5 April 1894, Page 6

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

CffBOM OD» OWK COBBESBOKMiNT.] WEELINGTON. Apbil 4. Mr J*meß.Mack»y,.inop« cfcor. of factories, left for Lunedii tCroigiit. Various change* : 19 the Telegraph. Department, consequent upon Mr J. X. Logan’u promotion, are just about to be made. • Mr Orohistoa, inspector at Auckland, is tfrJtake up the position in Dunedin pcoTiohtiy-. oconpied -by Mr Logan, while Mr Bold; inspector at Napier, is to succeed Mr OrchiatdaafTAucklsad. The Auckland district isv tb bef rery considerably , enlarged, targe portions of Mr ' Bold’s present district being' incorporated with it. The balance of the Hawke’s Bay district will be under the jurisdiction of the head-df the department at'Wellington. A r«sident officor,; howe7er, will _ be. stationed/ah Napier.-. all, probability Mr. to Blenheim, , which is A more pehtraT * station. leading telegrajdi. atatjbaa,' Wellington, Christchurch andDu#din, argio l be asked'-tc'-'-qualifir’ "tham'aelyes'-'fdr ' the poritl6o'’ofTiispd^w^»..^B«k‘ia' ,; ft»tufe vacancies in the .inspectorships may be filled up by|he: prdmbtion of one of these officers. '■' I understand that: as soon as. the Hinemoa returns; from: Earatongs, Captain Fairchild" will receive, instructions to survey a route'Across Cook Strait for the laying of an independent and additional \ cable between the two islands, providing % satisfactory route can be found, of which very little .doubt :,!a, entertained, in the ’ ' department.' A-single-core cable will be laid with the least, possible delay. This is considered to be; necessary as an extra precaution against a repetition of the inconvenience caused by the recent breakage of : the-; cable from Lyell’s Bay. This cable was found to be in such an uasatisfactory coudition that in many places it vaß ha much a 3 .it could do to carry its own /weigbti' in connection-with the new 'slpgle-core cable, it is also '-proposed qbia|&t<* and -idceiTOrj' by'wbich .messages' may be. taken at the. high -speed of 450 words,a minute. . In the. ; eyent of the three-core <»blet4g^)stiiil^g-.id^n < #e.,nee Wheats««d'-~'&limi!iatid-sender and receiver will enable . considerably more work to be done cnr;.the;Sipgle-oore cable than is now .done overthe three-core cable. A "Wheats tone|autpmatiomaohine has already been ordered from England, as well as a single-core cabled The matter is now in the hands of Mr-Logain. This officer has also decided: to.! place Wellington and Dunedin in direct telegraphic communication. Daring the present week an experiment has been made, with most satisfactory results, of working directly between the two stations. " (Beb Pbsss Association.) The cash' returns for the railways for the twelve months ending March 81, 1894, give a gross revenue of £1,176,000. As the Commissioners expect not to exhaust the amount voted for expenditure by JBSOOO, the net cash result will be within A2OOO of the return estimated at the beginning of the year (£448,000), or nearly 3 per cant oh the capital value of the railways, which capital value was considerably increased. during the year by the tpeaisg df ’QB?so&t»bl0 extoarioas.