A BOND OF EMPIRE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 97, 7 December 1911, Page 5

A BOND OF EMPIRE.

THE RECENT REDUCTION IN CABLE RATES. FURTHER EXPLANATION, Sydney, December 6. , Mr. Samuel, C.M.G., states that the delay of other than urgent press messages in 'plain language 'will not exceed 19 hours. ’ U.

The New Zealand tariff was previously very low, and it has not asked for a further diminution. Ho regretted he was hitherto unable to arrange a reduction to India and South Africa, but the Eastern Telegraph Company consented to carry Australasian cablegrams at a reduced rate in the event of the Pacific Cable being interrupted. The service would be fully operative by the 15th inst., but the Western''Union, the Anglo-American and the Direct United States companies accept telegrams at a reduced rate to their own oliices to-day. He hoped the now tariffs would prove serviceable to the sender of uncoded press and private not urgent messages. The Western Union instals for the use of the public cheap rates, which are just about oho quarter the usual rate. The minimum is six shillings for twenty words.

So-called “night letters” are also reduced one-fifth of the present rate, and the minimum is six shillings for thirty words. Week-end letters have been arranged between Britain, Canada, and the United States. Week-end letters are accepted on Saturday and delivered Tuesday night, and letters on the morning of the second day after acceptance.