THE CABLE CONFERENCE.
Melbourne, May 20. The Cable Conference has decided to adopt Colonel Glover's recommendation that a second cable between Singapore and Port Darwin should avoid the Java land line. The subsidy to the Cable Company is not to exceed L 32 ,400 for not more than 20 yeara. The reduction on the present Press rates is to one-fourth, or 75 per cent. Sir James Wilson,, the Tasmanian representative, attaches to his signature a memo regretting that the Conference declined to entertain a suggestion that the question of a cable connecting Tasmania and New Zealand had not been treated as part of the general scheme of telegraphic .communication with Europe.
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Grey River Argus, Volume 21, Issue 3046, 21 May 1878, Page 2
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