The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 6, 1886. THE CABLE DISPUTE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1400, 6 November 1886, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas et Prevalebit. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 6, 1886. THE CABLE DISPUTE.

The dlspure between the Eastern Extension Cable Company and the Government of this Colony has developed into a very pretty quairel indeed, and matters have reached a position amounting to a deadlock. It will be remembered that last session Parliament agreed to a renewal of the subsidy for a term of five years on condition that certain reductions were made in the cable charges. The Company declined to agree to those reductions and, on the contrary, gave notice of their intention to raise the rates unless thetr own terms of contrrct were agreed to. The Government replied that sooner than be copmelledlopay just what the Company chose to charge they would ask Parliament to vote a sufficient sum to enable the laying ol another cable, and that if the Company persisted in demanding the increased rates a terminal charge would be imposed in this Colony, out of the funds raised by which part of the cable charges would be remitted to the senders of messages from this end. The Company replied that it had taken advice and found that the New Zealand Government had no power to impose terminal charges, and Sir J. Vogel, in effect, said that he knew better, and would certainly make such charges it the Company persisted in raising its rates. The comes the news published yesterday that the Postmaster-General of New South,\Vales declines to collect the New Zealand terminal charges from the senders of messages from that end and will leave the New Zealand Government to collect them. The latter reply that they will not accept such messages and the Cable Company retort thatthey throw the onus of stopping such messages on the New Zealand Government, and that they ('the Cable Company) will not beinany way responsible. Now this is certainly a very awkward state of affairs, and while we think that the Cable Company has behaved very shabbily throughout the whole business, we fear .that it has rather the whip hand of the position, and that sooner or later the Government will have to accept its terms. For we do not think that there is the smallest probability of Parliament voting a sufficient sum to enable the laying of a second cable, and practically therefore the Cable Company has all the advantages of a secure monopoly. It is very unpleasant that it should be so no doubt, but, grumble as we may, in the end we shall have to grin and bear it. Meantime the press and the public, who are in a similar position to that of a third party between two combatants, are getting all the punishment, and it has become absolutely necessary that something should be done to settle the dispute. The Cable Company offered to refer it to arbitration in London, a proposal which was, we think, properly rejected, but the Government might now, we think, very fairly offer to refer it to arbitration in the colonies, say, for instance, in Hobart, where both parties to the dispute could be impar-_ tially heard and would, we have no doubt, be accorded the most just con sideration. Cardinal Newman’s health is now most uncertain, and his condition altogether precarious. Symptoms of paralysis, attended with aphasia, indicated the break of a fine, if not a broad and robust nature. Clergymen, Lawyers, Editors, Bankers and Ladies need American Hop Bitters daily, for nerve orce. Bead The best medicine known is Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza &lc —the relief is instantaneous. Thousands give the most gratifying testimony. His Majesty the JJing of Italy and medical syndicates all over the globe are its patrons. Bead the official reports that accompany each bottle. Mosler, M.D., Prof. University, Qreifswald, reports; The Eucalypti Extract proved magnificently successful in very severe contusions, bruises, sprains, wounds, scaldings broken ribs, and limbs. (Med. Journel, Nov., 1881). In diseases of the kidneys, either active congestion or suppression, (urcemia) or albuminuria, dropsy, lithiasis, nothing will equal in its action Eucalypti extract. Doses, sto 8 drops. Mosler, M.D., Prof. University jQreifswald, reportsdiphtheria. Tonsils continually coherent presenting ulcers with white exudate. Cured in U days. Surgical Clinic of Prof. MTntyre, College of Physicians and Surgeons, St Louis—Soirrhua of BreastExcision. Eucalypti Extract employed. No swelling, boat, or discoloration. Cured in|U