NEW CABLE SERVICE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 May 1910, Page 3

NEW CABLE SERVICE.

.ACTION* .BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. SOME OF THE CON,-! ! .OXS. [>Y KIiKCTItTO [PHll IMIEBS AHSOCIATION.J ' MELBOURNE, May 27. Tim I'ViWiil GWoniniiiivt Ikis de-

cided to (iffoi' .a subsidy of !'-()()() u year lor tliruo years for a cable service from iiiHnmd that will supply it minitniim of ji thousand words <.a,il,v. Tho c'l'er is limited to exUHn.t; associations. Conditions nro not, nil uel'med hitt will !)o irenerally on the lines of suggestions made by Seniato com milt.eo'.s report. Tho sciT.ieo must bo nv.ailflblc for nil newspapexs Mial comply with the conditions. Tho control of the service will ■iic left to the ncwspnpv rs interested. Every paper taki nii the service to have ft voice in the nianagomenit. Messages up to ,1 thousand words por <Tjiy must be transmitted by the Pacific cribio, but no stipulation is made as to the route beyond ithmt number. Tin* Postmaster-General will settle the comMtions under which the service will be supplied to papers, hut not tho terms.

The Federal Government has instructed, the High (Vnnnissiono.r to support in every pois«ihlo way the fonstruotfo,n of a State owned AlIniiitiii! line.