THE ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAPH.
To the Editor. Sik,—ln your local of Saturday last, “ Telegraphy,” you stated that the election for Piesident of the United States took place on a Tuesday, and on Wednesday the result of General Grant’s re-election was transmitted from London to Australia, reaching Melbourne soon after eight o’clock last night. As everyone does not read the Argus, and as \ou have admitted the date yoqrsclf, might oblige the general public by stating the correct time it took to obtain the news from America to Australia and here.- - I am, &c., A. J. G. Dunedin, November 25. [The paragraph in question appeared in the Argun of November 7. The Presidential ehetion took place on the sth inst, ; and the result would have been known in London in time for the early issues of the great London d.iilics—the Time s aud Telegraph, The message was received in Melbourne at 8 p.m. on the 6th, which is equal to lOh. lOmin. 42secs a.nr London time; Melbourne time being 9h. 4(hniu. and ISsecs. in advance of London. The rpsult of the election was known in Dunedin at 3 p.m., on the loth.En. E. S', j
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Evening Star, Issue 3051, 28 November 1872, Page 4
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