The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1883.

Kumara Times, Issue 2083, 3 May 1883, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1883.

It may not have been generally noticed, but on several occasions lately we have been able to publish for presentation to our readers before most of them have taken their tea, telegrams of events which have transpired at the antipodes, or the receipt of such news in England or the Continent of Europe, on the selfsame day on which the event has taken place, or the news has become current on the directly opposite parts of the earth. Sometimes we have had to complain of the length of time which these messages have taken in being transmitted over the last few miles as compared with the entire length of their destination; hut it must he exceedingly curious us well as gratifying to the public to know that the efficiency of our system of telegraphic communication is now so perfect that the news of events which transpire in Europe may be, discussed ac our tea-table before our relatives and friends at the antipodes have woke up from their slumbers on the same day to scan the same morning’s intelligence at their breakfast tables. For example, last evening, the 2. d of May, we published a telegram of news seat from London on the evening ~f the Ist May. It would thus appear that just a clay had elapsed be-

tween the time of sending and the publication of the news here; but this is not the case. We are in time hours in advance of London, and therefore, a message transmitted from thence on the evening (say six o’clock) of Ist May corresponds with our time at halfpast six of the morning of 2nd May ; so that really the whole time consumed in transmitting the news some twelve or 13,000 miles must be only between ten or eleven hours. A little information on this subject supplied by the Commissioner of Telegraphs in his annual report to the General Assembly would prove interesting, but we notice there is not a word on this subject in the last Report for the financial year of 1881-83. In conclusion, we may say a word for the proprietory. The expense of supplying late cablegrams is very great as compared with the small circulation of this paper, and we shall be glad if tradesmen and others will think of this and of the increase to their business which might ensue by the insertion of occasional advertisements of a commercial nature. It is by advertising that the healthy tone of a newspaper can only be sustained in these colonies.