Astronomers (says the Danbury Neics) tell us that it would take 1,250,000 years, providing there was a telegraph wire from the earth to the nebula in Andromeda, for a despatch to reach there. So no wire will be put up.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5493, 25 June 1879, Page 6
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