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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 112, 9 June 1909, Page 2

CHEAP CABLES. T'lic conference of ' 'ipei'iat Press delegates « ill have a.."niplished a great work if us <t result of it* deliVemtions n reduction is made in cable rates. The observation Miutlc by tile Karl of Crewe that cheap eonijnunication lav behind all the pn'M.'riplions for ihrijjgi'ig tin! various partrf of the Umpire together is :i striking trui.sin. Cables ami telegraphs are Ihe veins ami arteries of the Empire, and the day when they ilow free and unfettered will mark one of tile grente>.t and one of the. most farreaching epochs in the hintory of the Umpire, The .penny ea.hle servil-e. proposed by Mr. Jlenniker llcaton, rue (.'rent apostle of c>*oa]) postal awl cable i-oniiu'iinication. was seouled and n'efrariled asimpraclicable when it was suggested lust year, lint the same, predictions were current ill lire Old Country at one time in regard to penny postage. It may lie that penny cables jire near at hand. Mr. lleuniker llciilon, at any rate, is optimistic enough to believe that they are. "Wei may reasOTialily expect that ,our children will traiwu-t nearly all their business hy mean's of telegraph and Wephoires at «- trifling- eost, the cumlirous and tedious post olli>ro being reserved for the I of vaiu,\l)*f dwumenTs. ncH'S]xipeiN circulars, and pal'cels. Many traders would even telegraph circulars tri lie set up or printed in the colony or ,State selected: and or- [ dcrs wonl I pour in In- telegraph within 124 hours." This is the future he look's j forward Jo. Hut, lie says, nil the cables I are at present owned or controlled by a | : few ,<rrea-t .bodies; and even do not j I alwavs. compete. Wrrtra# in the Kuan- , einl IVview of liev'vws, lie says: ".-in I traveller cm the high scan will be called ou to pay, iihvaysi to an Un«iisli (-able compii.'uy, at first twice, and j Ultimately (as he gets further from home) from n-iali't to ten times the sum required to yield a fair profit on hU I messages. . , , A buge profit hi entile