TELEGRAPH CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 143, 8 June 1908, Page 3

TELEGRAPH CONFERENCE.

Lisbon. June .">. Hi" Li:-l»oi Telegraph Conference ajne-|...n-l ~ .light redii.-tion in the tele gr.rphic .',.:«. m- l.e|,\cn| Britain and l-ur-pe. P.iitain proposed to rcduc- the !• riuinal and tran-il rates ou extraEuropean telegram- t«> the hud ol l> European rate. Ileriuany and Italy strongly np|io-pil this. Tin- cubic com--I'ini- also were not prepared at present to make a corresi.on.ling reduction. The I pr.po-al was therefore withdrawn. 1 WOKDINM <»F COMMERCIAL CODES. Received 7th, -1.1."> p.m. I Lisbon, June ti. I In deference to the protests from tnc j viude British Empire, the Telegraph Conference at Li-lion decided to maintain the existing rules regulating the selection of word- in the compilation of ] .oniineicial codes, but the conditions | with respect to the pronouncability of words will I* more dcaily delined.' Ar j ian-eiii|.nts were made for optionally 1 ! 11-illg the pre-ent code., which will be j -iibniitteil t" 'he Hoard of Control, eon- ' .i-ting »f repre-entative- of Britain. ' Frame, and lirrinanv. who will a-ccr-I lain whether the code, ftlllill the coildiI ti"!.- i...|H.Se,I b, th cond paragraph ] ..1 clan- s. It wa- eilipha-i.c.l bv I f the llriti-ll delegates Iha I codes '. not pr.-enied for approval, e.piallv wilh ! til..-.- no) approved, -houhl remain in \ lorce. but that each adiniiii-lratinn be \ .■ulilled to accept or reject any word-.