THE SUEZ MAIL.
The wonderfully quick passage just made >'Vy the l ßangalore shows what may be expected when the telegraph connects Western Australia with, the rest of the Australian Continent. The mail delivered here yester- . day closed in London at 8.50 p.m. on Friday, fieptember 1, and it ceuld scarcely leave Ifiigliflb. shores.until the first day of September'.had terminated, and the second
. ; begun, and thirty-eight days and eleven v ' kburs afterwards the papers and letters arrived at Adelaide. They were landed in ~;..,- ;Melbourne a little oyer forty days out, anl the full information from European centres the 'Argus' of the 11th published was but thirty-nine days old. Our Melbourne con-'•:->i!'temporary points out that in a few months f 'King-George's Sound and Freemantle will be '{''' ia telegraphic communication with the other r - *- Colonies, and we may obtain the mail news . 4»f-thirty-three.-days from London to the " _;' or in twenty-eight days should it ever ior. the steamer to coal at Fre'iaantle. .','>
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Evening Star, Issue 4259, 20 October 1876, Page 4
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159THE SUEZ MAIL. Evening Star, Issue 4259, 20 October 1876, Page 4
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