IMPERIAL CABLEGRAPH.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 35, 17 August 1899, Page 3

IMPERIAL CABLEGRAPH.

In the June number of the " Nineteenth Century," Mr HennrkerHeaton, the gre^t pioneer of the Imperial Penny Post, writes of .the cablegraph system, and some of his remarks are worth reproducing. "It wouid be possible now, for the- sums paid in subsidising the mail packet companies to telegraph the whole of our -oorres- ; pondence with the colonies gratis." | Up to tho present time, however, he poi>}t3 out that the cable lines, are practically used for commercial telegrams — there being 99 such < out of every 100. We talk of the nationalisation of the land in this colony, aud think it a large order. Nationalisation of the cable system seems, in Mr Henmker Heaton's mmd — for the" benefit of 340 millions against the interests oi monopolist. The unfortunate monopolist, when his investment turns out successfully, the millions cheerfully ask for their share. When the monopolist loses his all, do the millions rujh along aad offer him es>ch & little of his .crust ? Monopolist has a nasty ring jb'oufc it — it is often synonymous with pioneer. Would it not be fairer to use tho' latter instead of the former word very frequently ? Mr Heaton proposes state purchase of tlie ' oable, and the establishment of Kones of a,penuy a word. These would give us cable 3 at one sniffing & word to New Zealand. A penny zone would , not i exceed SOOQ-milgs^ and already in Australia 3000 miles ar# covered 'bya penny rate. This is a shadow to-day, m fifteen to twenty years or leSj^-a-reality. -; ' , - - ' , ' •

people are rendered homeless \>yM the hurricane, and he tears that fM famine will fqllow. Two thous'^l and people perished in the Ponce"tl district ; 0000 are starving atl| Hnmacao ; 280 are 1 dead at Ya-| bucoa ; 2000 are dead in thej neighbourhood of that place, while 1 500 perished at Arecibo. 'i

, Ottawa, Aug. 14. ,") Ben Gooclson, the Australian, I amateur champion, won the five- '4 mile amateur handicap at the/* World's Championship Meeting ) at jVlonlreal, in 13mm 33 J-Dt'cc. ' ?

.Shanghai, Aug. 14. I The plague has appeared at ; Mucliany. ;

Madrid, Aug. 14. From Oporto news is to hand' ,J, J that cases 01 plague are reported ' there. The authorities at Oporto 'l concealed the existence oi the' 1 plague for two months. I

Capetown, Aug. 15. , '; In Parliament Mv Merriinan pvo- I posed an income tax of <kl in the - £ on incomes below £1000, and "• Is in the £ above. ,]

Pokt au Phince, Aug. 12. The danidge done* by the 4 hurricane at La-pointa Pitre -: amounts to 3,000,0uU dollars. r '