THE CABLE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 74, 15 March 1876, Page 4

THE CABLE.

(Australasian, Feb. 26 ) | New Zealand has at length become connected with Australia by a telegraphic wire, and in doing so has linked itself with the system of communication which for dub a network round the globe. News telegrams from that colony now stand in their proper place amongst the other intercolonial telegrams in this issue of the Australasian. It was time that the great and flourishing colony of New Zealand should become a link in that " electric chain by which we are darkly bound." No community posessing great commercial and industrial and political activity can afford in these times to dispense with the services of the telegraph not only as a means of intercommunication, but also as a link with the outside world. It cannot content itself with waiting for the mail to obtain news that the rest of the world obtains instantaneously by the wire. The congratulations which have been exchanged between New Zealand and some of the Australian colonies on the completion of the telegraph line have more than a formal and complimentary meaning. They express a sense of the great benefits which must arise when communities, already so closely connected by their interwoven material interests, are more closely drawn together by this new tie. Amongst the smaller of these benefits is tbe fact that one of the outlets to absconding offenders from these colonies is now effectually stopped. For persons desirous, from urgent personal reasons, of taking a hurried departure from Australia, there was a very attractive facility offered by the New Zealand steamers. However, the change which joins New Zealand to us by telegraph closes this means of escape, and supplies a useful auxiliary to the operations of our police. But without trying to enumerate these benefits, it is obvious that they are many and great, and not the least will be the closer federative feeling which must be fostered by everything that tends to improve the communication between the colonies.