THE TELEGRAPH.
To the Editor of the Otago Daily Times. Dunedin, Nor. 26, 1861.
Sir—Your observations on the subject of telegraphic communication between Dunedin, the Port, and the Heads, in your number of today are very just. You suggest that the design should be carried out by private enterprise. In Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania, the electric telegraph has been constructed by and is under the control of the respective governments. In no place except Otago would an an undertaking so much wanted be so delayed. The Chamber of Commerce and the pubiic generally have unanimously decided in its favour. The Provincial Council, with but one dissentient, passed a resolution also in its favour. But it so happens unfortunately that the Superintendent of the province^ and his enlightened advisers think otherwise. It is to be feared that tlie only argument that will have any influence on the official mind will be the loss of some vessel or other outside the heads with a few hundred unfortunates, for want of the necessary means of communicating for assistance. Do not let the matter • sleep ; what we cannot Obtain on other grounds may perhaps at last be conceded to our importunity.
I am, See.
Spectator.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12, 28 November 1861, Page 2
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