TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 177, 26 July 1872, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida. Cheokicle.)

Sir, —When I look around in thus "wide,' wide- world," and think what great little England lias accomplished, I feel lost in astonishment. The united skill and enterprise of Englishmen have

resulted in, what far exceeds the greatest works ever performed by the most renowned nations of antiquity, though some of their works excited the wonder and. admiration of the world. The Pyramids of -Egypt (still extant) are perhaps the most stupendous of those w;orks; but,, the largest Pyramid, as a work of utility or importance, is like a mouse beside an* elephant, or a mole-hill beside a mountain, when compared with the submarine telegraph which is now almost complete from -Britain to Australia, a distance of nearly : 15,000 miles. It is the work of Englishmen, and is, I believe, the greatest work ever devised by the mind, or executed by the hands of man.

The tender and affectionate words of a mother, spoken in London, will be faithfully transmitted and echoed the same day in the ears of her son in Melbourne, by that magic wire, or speaking machine, which eclipses all the witchery that ever existed since the creation of the world.— I am, &c., A Minee.