CABLE CHARGES.
(Received 10.40 ajn.) MELBOURNE, this day. J__ % v Court, in a special case, 'warded the Eastern Extension Cable I Mtopany £633 against the Commonwealth j' wernment, the amount being the differ- j . m th e minimum revenue and the ' •mount received by the company fori' JS'ages transmitted over the cable be- I' {7? n Tasmania and Victoria. The Court '' "" that the Commonwealth was not I : S. - Wed ' under the agreement made!' «n the company in 1002. to reduce I .Si.. ° f cables > an Order-in-Council to ' -Z £_ bein S im P«-ative. The Commonwealth was bound to pay the rates ™« until they were lawfully reduced, nwa s also bound to pay the company : StW ° f intelligence transtwnjna^ 11 the a S reement is lawfully
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 233, 29 September 1908, Page 5
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