PACIFIC CAULK
LETTER FROM HON A. C’OOTE. (Received February 28, 0.41 a.in.) SIDNEY, February 27 The Hon Audloy Cootc, in a letter to the press regarding the Pacific cable, says ihat if tho lino goes by Fanning Island to Vancouver, tho section of .“650 miles in 0110 stretch will, act as a. tollgato to all messages going over the cable,, unless tho Governments malic suclT»u expensive cable that the section will cost almost as much as the whole . of tho other sections put together. Mr Coots suggests the arranging _of a compromise with Ihc manufacturing cubic company to let the. lino from Fanning Island: no landed at. Honolulu, whence" it would go to 'Vancouver. Tho whole undertaking would thus he much bendtll-cd, and tho only extra •okt would be a. repeating station.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4293, 28 February 1901, Page 5
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