The Globe. THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1875.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 287, 13 May 1875, Page 2

The Globe. THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1875.

Our evening contemporary declines to see why the joining of Australia and New Zealand by cable, and the consequent bringing of this colony into direct communication with the mother

country, should be a subject of cou- ' gratulation. It also declines to believe that it is any sign of the prosperity ol the country, when such an important work, necessarily costing no insignificant sum, can be proposed, and a contract entered into for its accom plishment, without any signs of dis satisfaction from the journals of the colony. On these points we shall not argue, M it would be useless to expect

that argument would convince those to whom the premises are not patent. But we must altogether demur to the statement, made in the article to which we have alluded, that we desire to exult over any other of the British colonies, left out in the cold. We merely pointed out that “if the “ cable is laid, as it most “ certainly will be, we shall be in much “ closer communication with England “ than many of her colonies far older “ in point of years than New Zealand, “ and situated far nearer the shores of “ the old country.” When New Zealand was first attracting settlers to its shores, it was the most remote of all England’s colonies. It is a curious circumstance that, owing to the great discoveries in science, and the practical application of the knowledge thus acquired, New Zealand should be brought, as it is now, into a position to communicate within seven days with England, and as it will be shortly, within twenty-four hours. Such an advantage to the colony may surely be pointed out, and rejoiced over, without any accusation of exultation over other less favoured spots on which Englishmen have settled. Cape Colony was merely selected at random from a number of other parts over which the British flag is flying, and without the slightest idea of any exultation being thought of in connection with the laying of the promised cable. No one, we should suppose, would be idiotic enough to imagine that the idea of a submarine cable to Europe, for New Zealand alone, would find advocacy from any sensible persons in the colony ; but we must acknowlege that when the Australians have already got their cable, it does seem to us imperative that we should be enabled to partake of the advantages which it affords, even if we have to spend a large sum of money to accomplish our purpose. In this view we are borne out by the majority of the colonists of New Zealand, and the sooner the cable is actually laid, the sooner we shall have to congratulate the whole colony on the most important public work it has taken in hand during its career, being accomplished.