A NEW GABLE.
TO HONOLULU.,
(Per R.M.S. Sonoma at Auckland.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8
During the night of January 1, San Francisco began sending messages to ani receiving answers from- Honolulu. The ship Silvertown encountered severe storms on trip down, but was vc y successful in laying the cable. As soon as connections with the land cable were completed, messages from Governor Dole were forwarded. Goveiror Dole .sent the greetings of the Isianders to President Roosevelt. Tho message was acknowledged at the Executive Mansion, Washington, exactly thirteen minutes after leaving Honolulu. The distance traversed during the time was more than twen-ty-six hundred miles under the sea, ami more than three thousand over mountains, plains, and broad rivers*. Superintendent Harrington, at Washington, stated that it was very rare for instruments to work so perfectly al the first trial, as they usually rcqir'icd some adjusting. Messages from Honolulu told of the gratification oi the people of the island because of the . connection with the mainland. I-lawaiians forgot their pride in romantic isolation, and rejoiced at the opening oi new possibilities for commercial and industrial development. ...
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 811, 28 January 1903, Page 2
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183A NEW GABLE. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 811, 28 January 1903, Page 2
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