TELEGRAPH AROUND THE WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 639, 29 January 1872, Page 3

TELEGRAPH AROUND THE WORLD.

The London Daily A eu-s gives on good authority, a programme by which our continent is to be utilized more than heretofore in the interest of commerce. It says that three lines of telegraphic cable are about to be laid, under the direction of Mr Cyrus W. Field. One will be from San Francisco to Honolulu, thence to Midway Island, aud thence to Yokohama, 5573 miles. Another will from Victoria, Vancouver's Island, to Hakodadi, Japan, thence to Asiatic Russia, communicating with Possiette, which is already connected by telegraph with St Pelersburgh. From Atcha, one of the Aleutian Isles, a line is to go to Yokohama and Shanghai, thus communicating with China, while from Yokohama a line is to go to Niphon, thence to Possiette, Russia. It is estimated that 86G3 miles of wire will be enquired from San Francisco to Possiette, Russia, by the first line. By the other line, from Victoria to the same place, about 5241 miles will be needed. Lines from Honolulu to Australia will join San Francisco and Melbourne, touching at the Fiji Islands ; thence lines will reach New Caledonia and Brisbane, which is already connected with Melbourne, Adelaide and Fort Darwin on the north coast ; and a contract has been made for a line from that place to Java. Java is already in communication with India and China. — News of the World.