THE COLONIAL CABLE.
NSW ZEALAND'S ATTITUDE KBVXEWED. PER PBESS ASSOCIATION. Received 17, 11.2 pm. Melboubse, October 17. The Age says the connecting links of the Pacific cable are likely to cause trouble. It is pa'ent there is a desire on the part of New Zeiland to moropoi liee or gain tbe greater part of the I Australian traffic for her connecting [line. This will be a decided disadvantage to Queensland, who has confidently reckoned on the whole of the Australian business sent by the Pacific [route comiog over her land lin»s. For some time past the New Zealand Government has bsen working to obtain [a State owned cable between Sydney and Auckland. This is now within measu able distance, and with this cable completed Queensland's chance of a monopoly of Australian business ende. New Zealand has also offered to provide all the necessary staff for the Pacific cable, as far as that colony is concerned, at her own expense, thereby securing full control of the business as far as Not folk Island. The possibilities of the si' uation are being engerly discus ed in Queensland,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 237, 18 October 1901, Page 3
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185THE COLONIAL CABLE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 237, 18 October 1901, Page 3
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