Another Cable.
Sydney, Yesterday.
The following is the substance of the scheme which has been proposed by the Postmaster-General for laying a submarine telegraph cable between Australia and America:—" Alternative routes are suggested. According to the first of these, a line would be laid via New Caledonia, Fiji, and Honolulu, with a total length of 6858 knots ; the estimated post for the line by this route being £2,C00,000. If the alternative route be followed a cable will be taken from Auckland, its length being thus reduced to 6500 knots, and the estimated cost to £1,950,000. In this case, however, the existing Eastern Extension Company's cable frem Nelson to Botany Bay must be added to the estimate. The cost is to be defrayed by the colonies jointly upon the basis of population ; the share of New Zealand would thus bo £266,000. Communications with reference to the scheme will be addressed to the New Zealand Government.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4660, 11 December 1883, Page 2
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154Another Cable. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4660, 11 December 1883, Page 2
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