ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
A company lias lately hocii formed in' London lor the purpose of laying iicable from oingiiporc to Australia, in with thai of the niciu line. from to tiio laltcr place., We undei'stiiild that the extoiiH'on ■nill traversp the Java Sea through Torres JStrait. iiiidthus by the. East coast of Australia unto .Sydney and .Melbourne. This important nuilertakms; will, we ait- inlon.'itd, be cuir.wrrieed as soon r.s tlic subsidies \yliieli have been promised are granted, and it will when completed place the people oi' Australia in aspoakhi" distanec with those of the mother country, ffn hope that the arranjrenicnls of the Company will enable them to extend the cable to Sew Zealand and thiis allov us to participate in the 'important beiielits which such a connection caniiotr-fail to secure.
Our own telegraph has now been extended to the Queen's Hedoubt, from which place several messages have been already transmitted. Its continuation to Ngaruawahia may speedily be looked for.
. : RAGLAN. By tho, arrival of the s.s. ' Alexandra' in the Manukau, yesterday morning, we learn of the following movements on the part of the Raglan expedition:— Qii Saturday morning last the \\ aikato Volunteers inarched for j\ r o. 1 camp, situated at tho Wnitctuna bends, and the 50th Kegimcut for No. 2 camp, some eight miles further up. About ninety men had been left behind m order to perform the Commissariat work, landing provisions, &c.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 44, 4 January 1864, Page 3
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