THE PACIFIC CABLE.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 374, 25 March 1902, Page 3

THE PACIFIC CABLE.

SIR JOSEPH WARD AT DOUBTLESS BAY. HISTORIC CEREMONY. t (Per Press Association.) > Auckland, last night. 1 Sir Joseph Ward and party reached ' Doubtless Bay about noon to-day. Soon 1 after Sir Joseph went off to the Anglia in a boat. He was welcomed by Captain Leach and officers. It was reported that there had not been a break or fault in the cable from Brisbane to Doubless Bay. On Sunday morning the last act but one was carried out in making tho connection with the shore, viz., cutting tho cable about BO miles outsido Doubtless Bay and buoying the end. This morning the end of tho cable was landed and buoyed ashoro with barrels. During tho trip tho cable was laid at tho rate of about 8 knots an hour. After inspecting the vessel, Sir Joseph Ward and party adjourned to the Anglia’s saloon, whore Mr Lucas, Enginoer-in-Cbief of tho Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company of Greenwich, which is laying the eablo, proposed success : to New Zealand, to which Sir Joseph i Ward replied, and proposed the health of - the Pacific Cable Board, to which Mr ■ Rignald, General Manager of tho Board, replied. c A vorso of the National Anthem con- ( eluded tho ceromony. , j Tho Anglia is coming to Auckland 1 about March 27th. s Sir Joseph Ward and party made an inspection of the cable-station buildings, v and left again on the Tutanekai for Auck- £ land at 5 o’clock. Sir Joseph Ward sent h a message ashore by cable from on board tho Anglia for transmission to Wellington 0 to tho Premier. n