The European Mail says that on Thursday, February 16, at 9.8 p.ra, a London' establishment received a message which bad been sent, via Teheran, from Kurrache, India, on Friday morning, Feb. 17, at 12.43 a.m. The message was therefore received in London the day before it was sent from India. The time actually'occupied by the message in transmission was fifty minutesj the sun would require four hours and twenty-six minutes' to do the same distance, and as the message was sent so soon after midnight, the extraordinary effect is produced of its arriving the previous evening.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 1007, 3 May 1871, Page 2
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