CANADIAN CABLE COMPANIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 77, 2 April 1910, Page 5

CANADIAN CABLE COMPANIES.

♦ i CONTROL OF RATES. Bjr Telegraph.— Press Assosintion.-Copyricut, OTTAWA, Ist April. lue Canadian Houte of Commons has adopted a Bill giving the Railway Commission control of the rates and facilities of the cablo companies. Mr. Lomieux, Po»tm<»6t«r-General, 6tated that the Motherland has promk>ed to enact concurrent legislation. Ho had decided to get from the cable companies a schedule of rates satisfying the public and the press. He proposed that urgent messages should remain at one shilling a word, feerni-urgent should be sixpence a word, and the press rate should be threepence. The Government Bill respecting ocean cable companies is designed to secure lower rates for both private and press messages between Canada and the Motherland. By being made eubjeel to" the jurisdiction of the Ruilway CommiV fcicu, as is now the case with the telegraph and telephone companies, the cable companies will (iecently stated the Ottawa correspondent of The Times) oe required to disclose tho full particulars of their business in .order to justify their present charges, which are held to be .abnormally high. It is expected tb«t concurrent legislation will be enacted by/ tho British Parliament.

Probably at no period in this country's history has t ll ° indu»iri*l outlook been so, ptoinieingr, and with tho spltmdid season now in view/, together with tiio high prioes •iuilhir for wool r.nd a, demand for New Zealand products, the people of the Dominion mu«t- Rfaaxe to the full in the in~orG*«ed prosperity. One of the good thingswill bo founfd in the •tore of C. Bmi(£, Ltd., Cubasßteotjt. A -special' line imported', for e\ery kind of outdoor wear — Ladies' Tweed Hate in ail the latest populur shape*. Tins now "Buvi»erry," "Peler Pan," "Huriinghun," "Ijily, and many otheri. Prices range from 4» lid. 5* 6d, , 6s lid to 11. feL-Adrt.