THE PACIFIC CABLE CONFERENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10032, 20 January 1896, Page 5

THE PACIFIC CABLE CONFERENCE.

THE ROUTE TO BE RECOMMENDED. ARRANGEMENT FOR THE COST. Prats Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright, Sydney, January 19. The Pacific Cable Conference has concluded its deliberations. It adopted recommendations in favour of the construction of a cable touching only in territory owned by the British Empire; the coat to be borne in equal thirds by Great Britain, Canada, and the Australian colonies; the route to bo via Fanning Island, Fiji, and Norfolk Island, thence bifurcating to New Zealand and Moreton Bay. The Agents-General of New South Wales and Victoria were selected as Australian delegates to the Imperial Colonial Conference to be held in London to discuss the question. Tim position of South Australia in regard to the new ling was discussed, at groat) length, the Conference recommending her to join in. Finally it was resolved that Mr. Cockburn should make a proposition embodying the terms on which his colony was prepared to come in. It) is understood that the proposal is that the other colonies should meet South Australia by pooling the coat of the Port Darwin line on the basis of the business done over it during the last five years. Mr. Reeves left by express to-night for Brisbane, where he joins the steamer Merkara en route for England.