PACIFIC CABLE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1923, 20 August 1888, Page 3

PACIFIC CABLE

(PBR PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

London, August 16. Messrs Owen Jones, Sandford and Fleming, representing the Pacific Cable Company, have had a satisfactory interview with Sir J. Macdonald, Premier of Canada. Ed at A despatch from London, reoelv Montreal on July 9 th, says a comP Ie ™ breakdown m the Eastern Teleg^P 1 * Company's system between Java and Port Darwin is oreatlng a strong feeling among commercial people m favor of the route from Pttoifio and Vanoonver.B. 0., to Australia. . , , At a meeting of the New Oriental the Chairman said he went east over the Canadian Pacific Road, and was convinced that a oable by way of Australia and Canada would greatly benefit the oommerceofthe Empire. The opinion wbb expressed that the Imperial and Colonial Governments should hasten the proposed survey of the route. A despatoh from Ottawa, Canada, on July 7th, says the exact route of the cable has not yet been decided, but It will run from Vanoouver, 8.C., to the Hawaiian Islands and the reoently annexed Fanning and Fiji Inlands, thence to New Zealand, and from there to Australia. The oable will be 6800 miles long, bat the longest stretoh will not be over 2000 miles. Mr Owen Jones, engineer and capitalist, arrived from Australia on July Bth, accredited to the Canadian and American Governments on a mission to oonduot the negotiations toward the construction of this oable