The Telegrapn Lines of the World

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 92, 27 January 1891, Page 4

T he Telegrapn Lines of the World

♦ ;- 'The length of the telegraph lines at she end of 1889 had reached a total jof 1,680,90,0,011168, a" length sufficient ,to go, round the Equator thirty times. Of this total the United States had 776,500 miles of wire, on which in 1,889 no less than 56,000,000 messages were sent. France has 220,890j 'miles of wire, on which 30,050,000 despatches were transmitted last year. Great Britain possesses 180,000 miles ,or metal line and in 1889 sent 50,000,000 messages Eussia has , spun. out 17p,500 miles, and in one 1 year despatched 10,280,780 missives. Australia has strung across its surface no less than 105,360 miles of wire and transmitted in 1889 12,000,000 messages. -. Canada has- 58,500' milesj i&rjtd'inade an* annual record -of about 4,027,581 despatches. Italy owns ,19,500 .miles, ,and. did a business iii 1889 of about 7,000,000 electric mesi sages. Egypt has 5,500 miles, and is in connection with India and England ' hj submarine cables, on which last year 1,600,205 communications were transmitted from one end of the globe to' the other. China has 5,500 miles ol! wire across Mongolia, and Japan owns 16,500 miles, over which , 5,000,000- messages were sent in one year. New Zealand , has covered it"s«!f with 1 1,375 miles of metal cord, and r despatched 1,835,394 messages. Tasmania'has 2,500 miles of telegraph Persia claims in partnership • witU Europ'eau wires about 6,124 miles. South Africa has a credit of 4,o!0 miles of wire. There are besides 942 submarine cables, exclusive oi the seven- Atlantic cables, with an - aggregate of, 112,740 nautical miles. Dunedin Star. gaga— — *mmmMtzauam*.jMxse^mi^BaHmmm