PACIFIC CABLE.
DEBATE IN THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Aug. 13. In the House of Commons the Pacific Cable Bill was read a second time by 183 to 59. During tho debato on the Pacific Cable Bill, Mr Flynn condemned the Government for entering into competition with private enterprise. Mr Hennikor Heaton defended the principle of Imperial State cables, which gavo the advantage of an alternative route. The reduction in rates was also an important matter. Mr O'Mara said tho scheme was the outcome of Mr Chamberlain’s Imperialism. Two cabjcs to Australia would prove unremunerative. Mr Auston Chamberlain said it was the first time that the self-governing colonies, hoping to promote inter-British trade and inter-British intercourse, had proposed to the Motherland to take combined action in a great commercial undertaking, and it deserved a friendly response. It was ono of the most fruitful and hopeful schemes of recent times.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 187, 15 August 1901, Page 1
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