CHEAPER CABLE MESSAGES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 309, 12 January 1912, Page 8

CHEAPER CABLE MESSAGES.

Sir William Hall-.Joues presided over a dinner of the Anglo-Saxon Club held last night at Prince's Restaurant (writes a London correspondent under date of Xevomber 29th). when Lord Plunket was the guest of the evening. Mr Alfred Kick! was among; those present. In reply, to the i toast of his health. Lord Plunket said that the late Lord Dufferin once said to an assembly of Scotsmen who were entertaining him at a banquet that he himself was a Scotsman greatly improved by 300 years' residence in Ireland. He (Lord Plunket) was an Irishman greatly improved by sixyears' residence in New Zealand, and his life there was so happy, his work so full of interest, and the great future of that country was so plainly evident at every turn that, though they might differ over the word An-glo-Saxon, they would be entirely at one upon the great sentiments they used it to represent. The Club was doing a useful work in bringing together, in an agreeable maimer men interesed in'the Empire. lie was a firm opponent of the view that it was mainly self-interest which bound our Empire together, but all his observations went to show that sentiment, devotion to the Crown, the Old La.ml, the Old Constitution , our common heritage, played just as great a part. There was no more important work to be done than finding some way to reduce the cost of cable messages, to push forward the All Bed .route to lessen, the time taken by our jnaij. steamers, and to back up such societies .as the Victorian! League, whial:', wok-omed at home road, the Briton. _m. States, Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, South Africa, Continent of Europe' and United Kingdom, via Naples (due London February 17), per Moeraki. close Thursday, January 11, at 8 p.m. Mails for Canada, United States, Central America, West Indies, United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, etc., via San Francisco (due London February 12), ,per Maitai, dose Thursday, January 11, at 8 p.m. Mails for Australian States, per Main Trunk train, connecting with Maheno "from Auckland, close Saturday, January 13, at 12.10 p.m. R. C. BLACK, '• Postm aster. '