THE PACIFIC CABLE.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.
Melbourne, November 26. The Postmaster-General states that the Telegraph Construction Company's tender for the Pacific cable is £1,795,000, and the estimated cost of insulation and survey £204,000, making a total of £1,999,000. The work is to be completed by July 1, 1902. The company undertakes to lay the cable within that time, if allowed to begin with the Fiji to Norfolk Island section, and then the Norfolk Island to Australia and New Zealand section, finishing with the Vancouver section.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11540, 27 November 1900, Page 5
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