THE BROKEN CABLE.
Melbourne. July 2. The Governor held a Council of War yesterday. The result of the deliberations was that the gunboat Albert was sent to tho heads on patrol duty, and t\\n remainder of the fleet got up steam and were p'ueed in fighting trim. The Naval and Submarine Torpedo corps and resarves wore called out, and ordered on board their respective vessels. The flubmaritio mines were laid down, and the electric light kept going at night. Later. The scare resulting from tua break in the cables is subsiding. The Government state that they merely uaed the occasion as a pretext for testing the alacrity of tho forces. Sydney July 2. The New Souih Wales Government feel no alarm at the sadden interruption of the cable. Adelaide, July 2. Tho breaking of the cables gave rise to great uneasiness I ere. A belief u growing »hat the snapping of the cnb'es< was the work of the Chinese u; a preliminary retaliation for restrictive
legislation. A * Council ot Wer was held, and the guoboat Protector wax placed in fighting trim, and the members of the Permanent force were ordered to remain in barracks and at the forts. A further test by the authorities shows that both cables broke close together. The fault in the o'd cable is 850 miles from Port Darwin, and in the one forty miles fnr'her. Wellington, Ju'y 2.
The distance between Banjoewangie and Port Darwin is 1082 miles, which a steamer would cover in about four days. If the Cable Company send messages along in this way, as they did some time ago, a batch may be expected about Friday. The Sherard Osborne's engagement in'New Zealand will somewhat retard the labor of r.«pairin£, as she is the steamer best suited for work at long distances from ports, Her mission hare is all but finished, as the only work now left is the insertion of a piece of new cable in the single wire line, which wbb broken the other day. The tension caused the two ends to spring nearly half a mile apart, and th* cable which temporarily supplied the gap has be in found unsuitable, ani is now being replacrd,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1759, 5 July 1888, Page 1
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366THE BROKEN CABLE. Temuka Leader, Issue 1759, 5 July 1888, Page 1
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