TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH ENGLAND.

Evening Star, Issue 3026, 31 October 1872, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH ENGLAND.

The intimation of the establishment of through communication between Melbourne and London was known in the former p aco on the night of Sunday, the 20th, aud the first press message was despatched from London at 4.25 p m the following day, corresponding to Melbourne time of 2.10 a.m on Tuesday, and was received at i 1 p. m. on the 22ud, so that it occupied as nearly as possible 24 hours in transmission. Between .Loudon and Melbourne a telegraphic message passes through the hands of the operators no less than 3(3 times; and tin re are 18 “repeating” stations, at each of which the message has to be received, copied, and retransmitted. Taking the consumption ot time in transmitting a message of 200 w urds, the delay on the Indian aud connecting lines, London news 24 hours old is not so bad. The only additional items on the Melbourne papers are these . . . At the distribution of prizes at Salisbury the Bishop of Manchester said he considered the Oxford local examinations the best movement which had boon instituted for the encouragement of education, inasmuch as ooUU candidates had been examined. Four thousand Liverpool dock laborers have struck. . „ , Five thousand colliers at the ■ tanordshire works, in order to avert a lock-out, resolved to submit their demands to arbitration. Great slacking orders have been given in the iron and coal districts. The ironmasters at Cardiff resoived not to meet the demands of the men, and by a combination close thdr works within four weeks. The evacuation of the Marne has comExtensive emigration has taken place of the inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine on tho expiration of the option of adopting the German nationality. . A Gorman squadron is being fitted out for a voyage round the world. The emoluments of tho Bishop of Emerland have been stopped. . , The Spanish Cortes have rejected the Republicans’ amendments favoring the abolition of slavery. • The Australian Meat Agency, with a capital of L 150,000, has acquired a large business.