A NEW CABLE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10592, 22 October 1910, Page 4

A NEW CABLE.

[By Electric: Telegraph—Copyright.j (Per Press" Association.) .Received October 21, at 3.5 p.m. .'»;/>"->. ~:- London, October 20. jf'Sif interviewed Lord Crewe 'and-airge'd .the desirability of .laying an 'Atlantic cable to connect with the Pacific ' line. He stated that good judges, estimated that it would pay /handsomely at due-third of the present •irates, and -that "a profit was possible, ,evori if a second cable became aieccssarv by way of a precaution against a hreak--1 down.' Sir G. Reid has / arranged with the Pacific Board to prepare a detailed export lcpoit for Lord Crewe's con,sic!ei ation. ~ ,

Received-October 21,- at 1J.5 p.m. Loudon, Octo"l>er 21

Sir G. H. Reid incidentally mentioned -to Lord Crewe that a possible alternative route, avoiding the dangers of' trawling, would be via the Shetlands, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador. It would be no longer than the Atlantic. The greatest length between land points would be onlj 850 miles. Experts calculated that it could be worked at tour times the speed of the Atlantic. The drawback was the touching' *dn Danish territory, but onh through wanton mischief would it be cut in case of war. Mr Reid ascertained that there were only two British-owned cables —the Anglo-American and the direct United State? Company—and they are on the verge of absorption by the American Telephone and Telegraph Companj. Representations would be initiated for a deferred Pacific rate, and a meeting of the cable companies and the British Post Office is to be called shortly to consider the matter.