A SECOND CABLE.

Evening Star, Issue 4244, 3 October 1876, Page 4

A SECOND CABLE.

The ' South Australian Register' of the 14th inst. mentions that on the previous day the Minister of Agriculture and Education (Hon. E. Ward) stated in the Assembly that Government had received a telegram of importance from the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, with reference to ttie duplicate cable route, dated 12th September, as follows:—"Mr Cracknel], onr Superintendent of Telegraphs, advises by telegram from London as follows :—' Before deciding duplicate cable, see my letter 23rd Angus* via Sau Francisco. Am satisfied that cheapest and onlv duplication necessary at presenb is from Singapore to Bmjoe.wanoi wh'ch will require only small subsidy. Darwin cable not 1 kely to give much trouble for s-ome time, and will in future be immediately repaired. Wi.en Western Australian line finished, could c.rry cable fjom Banjoewangie to orth-west Cape. Submarine cabla to Ceylon or Mauritius considered impracticable, and nothii-g doing for cable Mauritius to Aden. Duplicate lines are being shipped for Su z and Bombay, alsa for Kangoon and fenang. (The advantage of that, the hon. gentleman said, w uld ne that a connection would be afforded with the land line from Calcutta, and this would virtually give a duplicate line from Penang to Madras, between which places the present and late interruptions occurred.) Normanton proposal too expensive in comparison to Queensland pr< >poi tion of subsidy. Above is only practicable arrangement without involving unnecessary expense to Colonies; cost per annum will be supplied in few days. So soon as the letter of the 23rd August arrives we will tend you a copy.' "