THE NEW CABLES.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WAEAPUAKA, February 4. ■Mr Browning, superintendent of the Cable Company, is advised that the remaining sections between Cornwall, Madeira, and St. Vincent of the Eastern Telegraph Company's new direct, cable to South Africa, which is to connect with the Eastern Extension Company's Cape-Australian cab'e, are now completed, and opened for traffic. The Telegraph Construction Company's steamer Britannia is to leave the Thames this month for Adelaide to lay the shore ends of the Adelaide-Fremantle section of the Cape cable. After the completion of this work she will proceed to the Pacific and-start surveying the route for the allBritish cable.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10882, 5 February 1901, Page 6
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