REASON OF THE AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAPH FAILING.
A FAMISHED BUS UMAX CUTS THE WIRE. Through the courtesy of the’ Telegraph Department vve are enabled to give the reason for the breakage of the telegraph line be* tween Poit Darwin aud Adelaide. The repairing party on the Port Darwin line report having found ft man dead under the line, 120 miles north of Peake. In despair he h»d cut the wire iu order to bring assistance. Hia horse was lying dead alongside the body. The nearest water was 20 miles distant.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 7111, 10 March 1884, Page 2
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