THE PACIFIC CABLE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2506, 2 April 1902, Page 56

THE PACIFIC CABLE.

MESSAGES OF CONGRATULATION. WELLINGTON, March 31 I S.i r .1 G. Ward ha« recer. Ed the follow m? j cablegram- of congratulation in coni'ivtion | with the landing of the New Zealand bet tiuii of the Pacific cable. — From Mr ChambcrLun. Secretary 'if SUrr foi the Colonies: '"1 thank jnu for yom ', telegram announcing the landing of the ! Pacific cable m Doubtless Bay, and appre ciate recei\ ing the fir^t menage sent o\cr the Australasian section, and •jhare in the hope of its speedy completion the project I being of e-uch importance ami MgmficaM c ! to the whole Empire." From Mr .To'in T. Kprmghall. A( riiig State Deputy PcMma'-ter-gcneral at Melbourne: *"Ac<-cpt my congratulation* on behalf of | the Victorian Po-tal and Telegraph Department on the- sue ees-ful completion of the j Pacific cable between Au«tiulia and New Zealand, \ la Norfolk Island." From the Hon. J G. Drake. Federal Postmaster-general. Melbourne : '' Hearty greetings. Am looking forward to the completion of the cable as another long step in the direction of free intercourse with New Zealand, Canada, Great Britain, and Europe." j From the Right Hon. E. Barton, Federal ' Premier: '"Many tliank« for your telegram. I join with you in believing that the new cable will be of material advantage to Aus tralia and New Zealand. ' From Sir Spencer Walpole, chairman of the Pacific Cable Board : " Share your plea«ure at completion of the first links of a cable which, I tru»t. will be laid throughout before the close of the year, and unite i still more closely Australasia, and the ' Mother Country." \ At Pleasant Valley, Goodwood, the flood was so strong that it washed away a three horse Cambridge roller at Mr Coutt'-'ts farm I The roller was left about a chain and a half | from the river.