The Interrupted Cables.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 156, 3 July 1888, Page 5

The Interrupted Cables.

WAR SCAPE IN AUSTRALIA

SUBSIDING.

Melbourne, July 2.

The scare resulting from the break in the cables is subsiding. The Government state that they merely used the occasion as a pretext for testing the alacrity of the forces.

Adelaide, July 2.

The breakage of the cables gave rise to great uneasiness here. A belief is growing that the snapping of the cables was the work of the Chinese, as a preliminary retaliation for restrictive legislation. A Council of War was held, and the gunboat Protector was placed in fighting trim. The members

of the Permanent Force were ordered to remain in barracks and at forts.

Sydney, July 2.

The New South Wales Government feel no alarm at the sudden interruption of the cables.

Adelaide, July 2.

Further tests made by the authorities show that both cables broke close together. The fault in the old cable is 858 miles from Port Darwin,and in the new one 40 miles further on.

Wellington, Monday.

Mr Browning, Superintendent of the Cable Company at Whakapuaka, has received the following information from the Superintendent ab Potb Darwin :—"Old cable was perfect on 29th, and we worked on it to Singapore during tho morning and night of 29th. When the cables became interrupted, a best of both was made. The breaks are between 300 and 900 miles from hero. On testing wibh high battery power next morning a small fault of high resistance developed in the old cable, caused by defective point on the beach, but not sufiicicnb to interfere with tho working had tho cable nob been broken. The cable is now perfect up to the break at about 850 miles from here. We only work one cable at a time, and immediately the now cable failed wo joined up on bhe old cable and found it had gone also."