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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 89, 14 April 1875, Page 4

Under the headiDg ''Telegraph Offices at Sea," the Philadelphia Ledger says : — Can it be done ? — that is, eau measures be devised to enable steamships at sea to keep up telegraphic communication with the shore ? The rest of the civilised and commercial world is within easy telegraphic communication with eaoh port, but the large community wbich liveß on our passenger steamships is totally cut off from the rest of the world the moment land disappears; and the question is — "Can anything be done for them?" Two planß are suggested — one to pay out a small and comparatively inexpensive cable by the departing steamer, thus keeping up communication with the sailing port ; but thiß plun meets with so very many objections in the sbape of expenses, the loss of a cable on each trip, and the uncertainty of keeping up some communication, that another is suggested, having more of system and business principle as its basis — namely, the establishment of cable stations ou the high seas, built upon buoys, at which a steamer may stop and communicate if in distress, givo her time, and enable her passengers to communicate with either shore The object would, without question, be extremely desirable, while the plan, to say the least, appears no more impracticable than did the laying of the cable between tho United Statss and Europe before the hitherto incredible task had been accomplished.