THE PACIFIC CABLE.

Evening Star, Issue 11895, 25 May 1903, Page 8

THE PACIFIC CABLE.

AJI traffic by the Pacific cable is being expeditiously dealt with, and messages to and from foreign countries and Australia are receiving remarkable despatch. Cablegrams from Queensland are reaching Dunedin in fourteen m:nutes, from Sydney in twenty-five minutes, and from Melbourne in from twenty-eieht to seventy minutes—the delay there being in most cases on the Commonwealth lines. There are never move than two or three messages awaiting despatch on the Pacific cable, which indicates that delay is not possible. A Dunedin office sent a cablegram to London on Thursday at 4.13 p.m. ; the reply was received in Dunedin at 8.58 p.m., which shows only 4ii sSmin for the total passage of the cablegram and the time occupied by the addressee in London replying. We have the authority of the superintendent of the Pacific cable in New Zealand for the statement that the Pacific cable to Australia can carry without more than two nr three minutes’ delay 75 per cent, more traffic than at present. That is to say. that at present the Pacific cable to Australia is only occupied a little more than half its time. The commercial community can thus see that there is practically a clear line for their busmess. Patrons of the Pacific route are always informed when there is likely to be any hindrance to the prompt despatch of their messages.