CABLE RATES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 770, 3 December 1886, Page 30

CABLE RATES.

We are indebted to the Cable Superintendent at Wakapuaka for the following telegrams which have been forwarded by the Chairman of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company to Sir Julius Vogel:— “ London, November 23.

“ Your telegram of the 15th was only received yesterday, owing to derangement of the service by a cyclone in India. The proposal to revert to the status quo ante for six months waa Sir Dillon Bell’s suggestion, and, with a view to meeting the interests and convenience of the telegraphing public, the Company accepted it. The reduced rate for Press, with guarantee, was your suggestion, and we accepted it on condition that your Government ensured the guarantee. However, the removal of the deadlock is so essential to tho telegraphing public that the Company will not, on account of any difficulty with the Australian Press, delay reverting to the status quo ante as proposed by Sir Dillon Bell, and will accept your Government’s guarantee for Press Association at once, and you may then be able to arrange the guarantee in regard to the Australian Press and Reuter during the next six months. It must be distinctly understood that Press telegrams are to be wholly in plain language, in accordance with the rules laid down when the 2s 8d rates for international telegrams and other special rate 3 was arranged. Code language has never been permitted over any lines in Press telegrams cairied at reduced rates.

“ In continuation of my telegram of yesterday, and to make the status quo ante complete, I authorise you to refund to the senders of messages the additional charge of 4s collected for the New Zealand cable since the Ist of November. Chairman, Eastern Extension Company, London.”