FIFTY YEARS AGO
CABLE NEWS rNTERRUPTED The breaking of the cables between Port Darwin and the Javanese station cut off Australia and New Zealand from the cable news of the rest of the world 50 years ago. The following is an extract from the New Zealand Hkrai.d of July 7, 1888: "We are still without European cable news. It is possible, however, that the first batch of the accumulated messages may arrive at Port Darwin to-morrow, in which case these will appear in oitf columns on Monday. A steamer has left that port with a large number of homeward cablegrams, which will be transmitted from Java. It is now believed that the breaking of the cables was due to volcanic action, and it is possible we shall hear of a violent eruption having taken place, sunsets,similar to those which were noted after t.ie Krakatoa outbreak in 188.'? having been observed. From New South Wales comes news of severe earthquake shocks.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23083, 7 July 1938, Page 10
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