SURVEY OF PACIFIC CABLE ROUTE
(By Electric Telegraph.— Copriuht.) MELIiOUItNE, July 3. Lord Kxutsimrd, replving to the request of the Postal Conference that the Admiralty should survey tho Pacific cable, says, H.M.S. Egcria, which ia on a general surveying tour, would furnish tho information as to deep-sea soundings on the general line of the cable, but the survey of the route to any purpose would entail a long and searching examination. No alteration could be made regarding the Kgeria's orders. The question of hastening the survey remains open until Lord Knutsford is satisfied of the prospect of funds being forthcoming, and regards the hastening of the work as of importance to Imperial interests. The annual cost of the Egeria is £12,000, and if another vessel were provided, the complete survey would cost about £30,000, irrespective of the value of ship expenditure and outfit. .a.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2494, 5 July 1888, Page 2
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144SURVEY OF PACIFIC CABLE ROUTE Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2494, 5 July 1888, Page 2
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