TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION.

Southland Times, Issue 1241, 29 April 1870, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION.

(TO THB BDITOB OF..THH |intE3.)_; L„. Sib, — In your issue of to-day, I observe, under the head of Tasmanian newsy— that/The G-overnment have issued- a ■ lithographic map of the proposed line of - '■'. the British and Australian' Telegraph Company, including the proposed line of the submarine cable to connect Tasmania and New Zealand The map is intended for general distribution, and is designed to show that this island affords the great — natural advantage of the shortest' sea ; route to New Zealand." . ; If the North of New .Zealand has out* T run the South in the matter of postal communication from Australia to Great Britain' via California^ the South can hardly be ignored as to the route of the submarine telegraphic. On the maps in general use the 'distance from' Sydney : to * Auckland is represented by 126j) miles ; •■' from Sydney to Nelson, 1100 miles -from Melbourne to Bluff Harbor, 1200- .. miles. The. distanpe from Melbourne yia Tasmania, to the new '- settleaient of Martin's Bay, on the .south-west of the Middle Island of New Zealand, ris,cpn- 7/ siderablyless than either of the ojiher __ lines!" would~it nb^t'liie^eTr'thal; this fact should ; not be, overlooked byv the Company? - Perhaps it is of little consequence to the public generally of Australia and New Zealand; still it. should be of some consideration in the cost of laying downy the line. Probably the Company is sufficiently- alive-to~the- shortest" ~:rottt&~~ -without any remarks from this quarter.— Yours, &c, . . Telegbaph. Invercargill, April 26thi 1870, ; , ■ ; ;, :