FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 10

FIFTY YEARS AGO

> * [ TRANSPACIFIC CABLE With modern liners and soon W riying-bonts linking New Zealand. the Mother Country, and with ra 1 and telegraph keeping the I) 0111 , 1 "'? in instant touch with the rest .of world, its isolation 50 years ago is* phasised by the-following extracts r ° the New Zrat.and Herald of Janu a • 30, 1888:—"The Postal Conference Sydney has finished its sittings, general regret will he experience this colony that the feeling of the• ference was adverse to the constru of tho transpacific cable. ~ "Our dependence on the W Telegraph Company for our sole . inunication with Europe has already felt to he sufficiently irk and anything to confine the mon 1 existing should be sternly resistec. course the taking on herself b.V _ Zealand of the. whole of "the r sibilit.v proposed for the lustra < colonics by the promoters °' , f fl f; pacific cable is not to be thong' but keeping .in view the earni . with which the Canadian Gp v -j], desires to form closer .relation , . the colonies .•.itis to be hop -y our Government will see a 1 y bringing about an understand which such an essential to .t ro'loni^ 5 as well as the commerce or-the, .. „ as a Pacific cable, may be obtai