AUSTRALIAN.
Melbottbne, Monday
The Cable Conference decided to adopt Colonel Glover's recommendation that a second cable between (Singapore and Port Darwin should avoid the Java land line.
The subsidy to the Cable Company is not to exceed thirtyrtwo thousand four hundred pounds for not more than twenty
years.
The reduction on the present Press rate is to be one-fourth, or 25 per cent. ;
- Wilson, the Tasmanian representative, attaches to his signature a memo, regarding the Conference, and declines to entertain the suggestion that the cables connecting Tasmania and New Zealand should be treaty as part of the general scheme of telegraphic communication with
Europe.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2890, 21 May 1878, Page 2
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