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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7550, 25 September 1886, Page 3

The following is a copy of the message from the .chairman of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company to Sir Julius Yogel :— " London, September 20th. " On my return from abroad I was sorry to learn the decision of your Government as communicated by your telegram of the 24th ult. The company have done everything possible to conciliate your Government and to meet the requirements of the telegraphic public, and- if our guarantee proposal had been accepted it would havo given the public a cheaper tariff than it is possible to obtain by any other means without entailing considerable expenditure on the colony. Under the circumstances, however, the- company have no alternative but to raise the tariff for intercolonial telegrams from the Ist of October to ten shillings per ten words, and one shilling for every additional word, in order to recoup the loss of the subsidy, and as I think it desirable the public should know why the company are compelled to adopt this course. I have given instructions that the whole of tho corres- . pondence on the subject is to be published. The company will be prepared to reduce the tariff as previously 1 offered to five shillings for ten words for Government and ordinary messages, and to threepence ncr word for. Press telegrams wlien your Government is ready to renew the subsidy."