AN INSTRUCTIVE SPEECH.
In reply to the toast of his health at a banquet given to him m London on April 23rd, Sir John Pender, chairman of the Eastern Extension Telegrapk Company, made a very instructive speech, Hq said that it was little more than 21 years since scientific mea had declared submarine telegrapy to be practicable, and now something like 4C.mi'!ions sterling was invested m Bubmarine telegraph'c undertakings, while the vast commerce of the Brap're, involving no lees a sum than a thousand millions Burling per annum, was daily influenced and controlled by cable communication. They had not yet girdled the world to tha letter because It would not pay, but if necessary they wore prepared to do so tomorrow. Speaking of ♦he oolories, ha said telegraphy wns playing an important part m their development by quickening emigration. Prob.ibly nothing retarded emigration more than the feeling of regret at leaving the old home and the old country. But when Bmigrants know that, through the Preae, they would be able to ascertain what was going on at home, aud all about the o'd aur roundiDgs, while those left behind would know that they would be made acquainted, almost from day to day, if uot froji hour to hour, wiih what was taking place at tbe new homes of the emigrants, the surplus population of this country would brace themselves up to leave the Mother Country, and go to lands where they would have elbow room and a chance m life. That consideration waa of great importance to England at the present time, and of enormous importance m the future, beniu?e such emigration would create an England abroad -a people that would always be loyal to the Old Country.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1882, 2 July 1888, Page 4
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288AN INSTRUCTIVE SPEECH. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1882, 2 July 1888, Page 4
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