AUSTRALIAN NEWS;

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1923, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS;

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. IMPROVED CABLE. SYDNEY, May 10. Mv Mil ward states a new type of cable is now being tested. It is expected to increase the carrying capacity by at least eight times compared with what is possible at present. testing new cable. SPEED MAY BE GREATER. SYDNEY, May 10 I Mr Milward, manager of the Pacific j ('aide Board, says the duplication of the cable from Canada to Fiji is held up ponding tests ol' the now cable, which it is calculated will considerably I increase 'the speed of t lie transmission i , ,j' messages and bring about a reduction rates if the tests are successful. Alt the cable companies recognise that it will bring about a revolution in cable telegraphy. M.r Milward added that whilst lie admitted wireless would play an important part in connection witv. strategic purposes, it was not feared commercially in the near future. In anv ease if commercial wireless developed the cable concerns hoped, by an ultimate reduction in rates, to successfully compete- against it.

ACCORDED CIVIC RECEPTION. SYDNEY, May 10 Doctor Ycdaiiayakan Samuel Azartali, Anglican Bishop at Dornakal, India. !• oil route to New Zealand, and is bring accorded a civic reception by the t.ord Mayor, CHURCH UNION. .MELBOURNE, May 10. Tin- Presbyterian General Assembly by LI- to 1 111 votes defeated a motion ’•a the adoption of the report of tile ’• lamittce favouring ehtireh union. THE NEW CABLES. SYDNEY. .May 1(1. The steamer Stephen is shortly to arrive from London with material for the two new ealiles tor the Pacific Cable Board. One cable is for the Southport Sydney line and the other for the Suva-’ Auckland section. • As the route is already surveyed the work of laying the cables will he started shortly after the vessel’s arrival. A NOT HE Ik PIT IDLE. SYDNEY. May 10. Ti'e northern coal owners will meet mi Monday to discuss the question of introducing voluntary labour in the idle mines. It is estimated that since the -Maitland pits closed, the employees have lost nearly a qur.rtor of million in wages. Another south Coast lit. the Metropolitan, employing six hundred, is idle. Tile Southern owners issued an ultimatum that unless branded idle, the mines would resume immediately. The conference with the Miners Federation, fixed fur to-morrow "ill he abandoned. A VALUABLE FIND. SYDNEY. May 10. An important find cf precious stones of good quality is reported near Cowra. It is .stated that they include diamonds sapphires, rubies and turquoise.