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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 526, 27 July 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC

'" (FROM OUR OWN OOERESBOIfDENI) • . WELLINGTON. • ■'• '"'' "Monday. The Railway Commissioners recommend that the section from Masterton to Mauriceville be proceeded with without delay; Mauriceville to Woodville when funds are available; and from Woodville to Bunnythorpe when the line is completed to Woodville. They also "recommend that the work be stopped on the; West Coast railway and the" labor transferred to the Masterton seotibn, as the Foxton line competes with the Wairarapa and Gorge line and does not open as much available land.

. The Public Works Statement will probably be delivered en Friday or the following Tuesday. ; The work of the session' will then progress more rapidly; ' ' The report of the Public.Works Commission is supposed; to have caused many alterations in the' proposals ,of • the Go? vernmont,

Murrayhasgiven notice to ask the Go> vernmenl the cost of the Greytown brand]

railway, with gross earnings and expend!' turefor one month.'" '•• ' Si!;; '

Ross, steward on the steamer Arawata, attempted to smuggle 341bs tobacco, but was cleverly detected by the higKtwatch'man. He was fined £SO or six months' imprisonment! : ;!

The Paikakarika Hotel, on the West Coast, was destroyed by fire at 4 a.m. ; to-

day. . :.';i : WJ ' Mclntyre, a candidate at the late elections, has brought a libel action for £SOOO agaimt the Melbourne Age for stating he was bought over by the Government by means-of .hii son .getting.an appointment.

Seventeen members' ,'ol „th'* English Parliament have been unseated on petition. .. ■ iYi;-:i';y-r);vifi;:.. ■;