MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1104, 23 June 1882, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The following is taken from the Melbourne Age: — On the 14th of April the proprietors of this journal wrote to the Post and Telegraph Department, asking the Postmaster-General to provide a separate wire to connect The Age office with Sydney and Adelaide. This was done for the purpose of securing with as little delay as possible, and up to the latestaioment telegrams from beyond the neighboring colonies, and especially telegram despatches from Europe. In various parts of Europe, as well as in America, tthis facility is afforded to the Press on public grounds, the newspapers so served of course defraying the cost of the extra wire. But our Government of «• peace, prosperity, and progress," cannot or will not make such a businesslike arrangement, though the. advantages to the public *re obvious. I Without stating why [or wherefore] the answer is a simple negative, in the. following terms :— " G.P.0., 16th May, 1881— Gentlemen, Adverting to your letter of the 14th ult, respecting the provision of a separate wire to connect jour office with Sydney and Adelaide Tespeetively, I have the honor, by direction «f the Postmaster-General, to inform you that after due inquiries upon -the subject, is does not appear advisable for this department at present to undertake the erection of special ifclegraph wires for Press purposes, as proposed. The " Standard " Vierna correspondent, telegraphing recently, says great excitement has been caused here by the report of a shocking accident which took place on Easter Sunday on the Rax Alp, near Peyerbach, on the 1 j famous Summering line, a favorite mountain with the Viennese excur- j sionists. Three young men and one young lady went up a high peak, and <one of the party ascended higher than in order to find out the right -path. He called from above that the Ascent was very difficult, and that no path was visible. On his return he wa3 astonished to find that his companions had disappeared, nor has anyihing been heard or seen of them since. It is supposed that a fatal fall had Juried all the three, the young lady sand the two young men, in the snows. The survivor, with the help of a guide, was searching the whole night for his missing companions. The electric light was also employed, but to no I purpose.