MELBOURNE GOSSIP.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 83, 27 July 1876, Page 2

MELBOURNE GOSSIP.

[From the " Guardian."] Captain Auclley Coote is very industrious in negotiating with the Australian Governments for. a fresh submarine cable to Asia. The popular opinion is that he ■will succeed ■with a line from Perth, West Australia, to Ceylon, with a landing-place at the Btocos Islands, half-way. The overland Bie from Adelaide to Perth is to be Rished by the end of this year, and of H&sieit is an element in the calculation. is a famous place for teleand I do not know whether it will surprise to: state that fifty wires leading into the Melbourne Telegraphic Office. The' Elizabeth telegraphic poles,-: iu Melcarries twenty wires. >4£ssi.burban are fitted bell communicating Brigade Station in Melbourne. a button the alarm is that miles be open - in Victoria by the The recent extension, by a co ie cnuca me ' forty miles South Wales border at

Deniliqiiki, info, the Kpart- of fh e y pastoral district' of Riverina, is a sw! for Victoria as against New South VfJt Passengers and goods now proceed bat from Deniliquin to Melbourne, via MoB Echuca, Sandhurst, and Castlemaineft whole distance being 200 miles. Eck is on the Victorian side of the ri Murray, and Moama on the NewsJj Wales side, the towns being connected a fine iron railway bridge. New Son Wales will push on railway extend rapidly henceforward towards VicW and Melbourne will be connected by* with Sydney in two years, accordino i the prospects now. • In the manifest of the ship Duchesi Argyle, from Liverpool, there is «J cask whisky, the Lord Bishop of Sjj hurst (R. C.)." The common tatera d* agree with him.