CANADIAN CABLES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 807, 3 May 1910, Page 5

CANADIAN CABLES.

MOVEMENT TO NEWFOUNDLAND. By Telesraph-Press Association—Oopyricht London, May 1. The Western Union Telegraph . Company—owner of the cable system between Dover Bay (near Canso, in Nova Scotia, Canada) anil Sennen Cove (near Penzance, England)—is negotiating for the ' laying of two new trans-Atlantic cables, to . land at Newfoundland. A RATE-CONTROLLING BILL, The prime motive of the threatened movement of cable concerns to -the colony of Newfoundland from the Dominion of Canada seems to be tho Canadian Government's Bill placing cable companies and their rates under the Railway Commission. Tho Bill has passed the Canadian House of Commons; ' and Mr. George G. Ward, general manager of the Commercial Cable Company—which owns the trans-Atlantic cable/ system from Canso (in Nova Scotia, Canada) to Waterville (Ireland)—has appealed to the Canadian Senate to ' roject it. Yesterday's cablegram from Ottawa stated: "Several cable companies threaten that, if tho Canadian Government press the Bill and it becomes law, they will transfer their terminal stations from Canada to. Newfoundland.'"

The Commercial Cable Company's station at Canso, in Nova Scotia, is connected by submarine cables with Water'ville (Ireland), with New York, and with Kockfort (Massachusetts). This company owned in 1909 twelve cables, having a length of 15,450 nautical miles. The Western Union Telegraph Company, mentioned in to-day's cablegrams, has its cable station at Dover Bay, near Canso, which is connected by cables with Sennen Cove (near Penzance, England), and with Ne\v York; this company owns a Gulf of Mexico, system, and ha.l in 1909 thirteen cables, 7478 nautical miles in length. . , • Other big cable companies, and the number of cables they own; are: AngloAmerican Telegraph Company (fourteen cables trans-Atlantic, Ireland to Newfoundland); Compagnie Francaise des Cables Telegrnphiques (32 cables, transAtlantic, France to United States); Western Telegraph Company (28, cables, Portugal to South America); Central and South American Telegraph Company (18 cables)! Eastern and South African Telegraph Company (19 cables); Eajtern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company (36 cables); Eastern Telegraph Compiiny (98 cables); Grande Compagnie dee Telegraphes du Nord (37 cables); West India and Panama Telegraph Company 1(23 cables).