THE PACIFIC CABLE OPEN.
INVEROARGILL, April 23. The Acting-Premier has received official intimation from the chairman of the Pncifie Cable Board that the cable is now open for intercolonial, Norfolk Island, and Fiji traffic. WELLINGTON, April 23. The Federal Government, having agreed to deliver New Zealand penny post letters in Australia, this colony has now agreed to a halfpenny terminal rate on cables. The lesult will be a universal cable rate of 4£d per word in all parts of Australia (but not Tasmania) instead of the present differential rates of 5d to Bd. Tae new rate as to
letters will nut take effee: till tin. Oi\'ei-ia-Council is gazetted.
We have received the follow ing li'oni the secretary to the Post and Telegraph Department: — "The Pacific cable is now open for intei colonial and international messages, also for Norfolk Island and Fiji messages. The existing rates as published in the Guide are to stand meanwhile for international and intercolonial telegrams. The rates for Fiji are 8d per word, and for Norfolk Island 3d, The reduction of intercolonial rates by both routes will be notified to-morrow, as well as the rates for Government and press telegrams.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2511, 30 April 1902, Page 29
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194THE PACIFIC CABLE OPEN. Otago Witness, Issue 2511, 30 April 1902, Page 29
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